INET in the News
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Cracks in the German Economic Orthodoxy: Is Economic Theory Detached From Reality?
Sep 17, 2012
New economic thinking is creating change in Germany.
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INET’s Rob Johnson on CNBC: “Inequality has been there a long time and growing rapidly”
Sep 16, 2012
Monday marked the one-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy movement, and INET Executive Director Rob Johnson went on CNBC to discuss the significance of the milestone.
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Europe’s Real Deficit Is Trust
Sep 12, 2012
While Europe faces the specter of overwhelming debt, another deficit lies at the heart of the inability to find a solution: a deficit of trust.
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Soros To Germany: Lead or Leave
Sep 9, 2012
INET co-founder George Soros is calling on Germany to lead Europe out of its economic doldrums or get out of monetary union altogether.
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Felix Salmon: Curb High-Frequency Trading and End the Stock Market “War Zone”
Aug 13, 2012
When Felix Salmon looks at the global equities market he sees a world of free-for-all electronic warfare that likely would be more recognizable to Isaac Asimov than Milton Friedman.
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'Economists at Fault for Recent Crises': An Interview with the Bank of England's Andy Haldane
Aug 7, 2012
In a recent interview, INET Advisory Board member and Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of EnglandAndy Haldane took aim at the economics profession.
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Ben Bernanke to Economists: More Philosophy, Please
Aug 6, 2012
This week Bernanke spoke to the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, and, as Bloomberg Businessweek notes, he was singing a different tune.
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Deleveraging Redfined - Part 2: Martin Wolf on the Least-Bad Alternative
Aug 1, 2012
“You can’t get out of debt by adding more debt.”
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Deleveraging Redefined: Martin Wolf Explains “That Sinking Feeling”
Jul 31, 2012
How to explain the current recession facing the US and the world? Does so-called “austerian” logic provide the solution? Or is it doing more harm than good?
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How to save the financial system from itself?
Jul 16, 2012
what role central bankers should play to bring the needed change>
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Leading European Economists Support Banking Union
Jul 9, 2012
In support of a European Banking Union, Done Properly: A Manifesto by Economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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Is the Economy Sustainable?
Jul 4, 2012
How will climate change influence economic sustainability?
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An Economic Manifesto
Jul 1, 2012
Are we doomed to repeat the past? Even when we know better? Or do we not know better even when we should?
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BRIC Buddies – China and Brazil Agree to Currency Swap
Jun 26, 2012
In a show of good faith between two rising economic powers, China and Brazil have agreed to a bilateral currency swap.
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German Orthodoxy Starting to See the Need for New Economic Thinking
Jun 25, 2012
While German economic policy makers continue to cling to neoclassical economic approaches, an increasing number of prominent economic figures are starting to accept the failure of orthodox theories to address the current crisis and are expressing the need to rethink fundamental economic concepts.