Thomas Ferguson

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Thomas Ferguson is the Research Director at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Senior Fellow at Better Markets. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught formerly at MIT and the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill & Wang, 1986). His articles have appeared in many scholarly journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Economic History. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Political Economy and a longtime Contributing Editor at The Nation.

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Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy

Article | Jan 9, 2017

As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz

INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously

Article | Dec 29, 2016

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

Guardian’s Wisconsin investigation points to big money’s systemic distortion of U.S. democracy

Article | Sep 15, 2016

Newspaper’s probe amplifies questions raised by our research into the impact of corporate donations onU.S. elections

Another Banking Crisis in Europe? This Time, Save Banks, Not Bankers

Article | Jul 7, 2016

If Italy or the European Union have to step in to save banks, there’s no reason for them to have to do it for free

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