INET in the News
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Higher education…or hired education?
Jun 24, 2012
What is the purpose of America’s universities today?
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Which nation is the greatest threat to Europe?
Jun 20, 2012
One country poses an existential threat to Europe – and it is not Greece, Italy or Spain.
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World Bank President Zoellick: In Euro Crisis “Time Is of the Essence”
Jun 18, 2012
World Bank President Robert Zoellick is growing frustrated with the lack of urgency on the part of Europe’s leaders in responding to the financial crisis in the euro zone.
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Looking Forward By Looking Back: Axel Leijonhufvud Interviews Friedrich Hayek
Jun 18, 2012
Leijonhufvud has questioned the flawed fundamentals of economics. And he has explored the spread of contagion in undermining the web of contracts that are the basis for capitalism.
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Confidence Game: Simon Johnson on the Conflicted NY Fed
Jun 14, 2012
Have you ever heard the old adage about the danger of allowing foxes to guard the henhouse? Apparently the New York Fed hasn’t.
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Living in Sinn
Jun 13, 2012
Germany should not pay for the bankruptcy of Europe, at least according Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
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Too Big to Bail? Spain is Repeating Ireland’s Mistakes
Jun 13, 2012
“Spain is now heading down the same path that bankrupted Ireland,” INET grantee Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Mark Blyth of Brown University warn on the Harvard Business Review’s blog.
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Too Big to Bail? Spain is Repeating Ireland’s Mistakes
Jun 13, 2012
“Spain is now heading down the same path that bankrupted Ireland,” INET grantee Stephen Kinsella of the University of Limerick and Mark Blyth of Brown University warn on the Harvard Business Review’s blog.
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FTD and Global Climate Forum to Host Event at Berlin’s Mercator Project Center
Jun 13, 2012
What is the role of Germany in Europe?
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Looking Out For Unknown Unknowns
Jun 12, 2012
Chicago School founder Frank H. Knight had some prescient observations in the early 20th century.
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The Vicious Cycle of Economic Inequality
Jun 11, 2012
The refrain for some time now has been that the economy will decide the upcoming U.S. election. But Joe Stiglitz offers some much needed focus to this discussion.
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Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom Passes Away at 78
Jun 11, 2012
Today the world lost one of its leading economic lights, as Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom passed away at the age of 78.
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FT Alphaville asks: Is the Renminbi overvalued?
Jun 10, 2012
“A chronic trend of this sort would indicate that the yuan was now overvalued versus the dollar,”
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The Big Bet in Europe
Jun 4, 2012
It’s crunch time in Europe.
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Joe Stiglitz on the 1%'s Problem and the Price of Inequality
Jun 3, 2012
Inequality isn’t just a problem for the 99%.