Archive
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News
Bloomberg: Why Innovation Tends to Bypass Mainstream Economics
Apr 30, 2018
The discipline is divorced from real-world relevance and has lost credibility, writes INET Global Commissioner Mohamed A. El-Erian
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News
Times Now News: America has been afflicted by an ideology that doesn’t work, says Joseph Stiglitz
Apr 30, 2018
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, in an exclusive interview with timesnownews.com, talks about what is wrong with current American capitalism, rise of a new kind of politics emerging from dissent towards government and more. Here are some excerpts from the interview.
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Research Program News
Chicago Booth Review: Globalization is close to its ‘holy cow’ moment
Apr 30, 2018
Richard Baldwin writes on why we must rethink our outdated ideas about international trade.
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Article
How to Grow the Economy While Reducing Inequality
Apr 27, 2018
For the BRICS countries to not just grow their economies but also raise the standard of living of their people, inclusive growth that prioritizes poverty reduction is a must
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News
Richard Eskow Interviews Lynn Parramore
Apr 24, 2018
“The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow” talks to Lynn Parramore about her INET piece on public education.
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Webinars and Events
What Money Can't Buy Live
DiscussionApr 23, 2018
To celebrate the release of our new series “What Money Can’t Buy” join Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel and INET for a live conversation exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.
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Article
BRICS to Play a Leading Role in Driving Future Global Economic Growth
Apr 20, 2018
But the five countries must still support greater investment in other emerging and developing economies
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Webinars and Events
Kerner Commission Public Forum Race and Inequality in Trump’s America
ConferenceApr 20, 2018
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka, CEO of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement Shawn Dove, Pulitzer-prize winning author Heather Ann Thompson and more discuss race and inequality in Trump’s America Friday, April 20th 5-7pm.
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Working Paper
CommentaryAnalysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Apr 2018
As early as 1900, German sociologist Georg Simmel identified a central feature of wealth in his seminal work The Philosophy of Money. Simmel writes about the superadditum of wealth for the rich, namely that a great fortune is encircled by innumerable possibilities of use, as though by an astral body.
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YSI Event
1. African Economies in Transition
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YSI Event
3. Revisiting and Confronting the Challenges of African Development
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YSI Event
4. Rethinking Cooperatives and the African Agenda
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YSI Event
5. The Current Challenges of a Complex Reality
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YSI Event
2. New Approaches to African Economic History
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YSI Event
6. A Critical Engagement with Financial Stability in Africa