Archive
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Article
Waiting for the Chinese Bear Stearns
Mar 13, 2018
Unregulated, speculative lending markets nearly brought down the global financial system 10 years ago. Now, Western banks are exporting this failed model to the developing world.
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Rewarding Bad Behavior: The Bear Stearns Bailout
Mar 12, 2018
Ten years ago when Bear Stearns crashed, the Fed decided to bail out first, ask questions later. It was a mistake that set a bad precedent.
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Article
Ten Years after Bear Stearns, U.S. Financial Stability Is again in Danger
Mar 12, 2018
Banks are pushing for deregulation and roll backs of Dodd-Frank’s regular check-ups on their financial health. We should be worried.
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Video
The Government as an Entrepreneur
Mar 7, 2018
Mariana Mazzucato argues that the idea that entrepreneurship is confined to the private sector is wrong.
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How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Mar 5, 2018
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations
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News
CNN: Are Stock Buybacks Deepening America's Inequality?
Mar 5, 2018
One of Wall Street’s favorite tools could be deepening the growing chasm between America’s rich and poor, according to INET grantee William Lazonick.
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Article
What Piketty Missed in Measuring Wealth
Mar 1, 2018
Despite assembling a formidable data set and leveling a bold argument, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has theoretical and accounting flaws that distort its central findings
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Video
How America Turned Its Police Into an Army
Feb 28, 2018
Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use of force against black communities
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Article
Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy. We Should Ban Them.
Feb 27, 2018
Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks.
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A Note on the Gender Disparity in Quoted Experts
Feb 26, 2018
Why women experts are denied the same scholarly authority conferred to men, and what we should do about it
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Article
With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Feb 26, 2018
By pushing workers into precarious, part-time work, “Third Way” governments of the past 20 years helped to create the disturbing economic trend that’s vexing orthodox economists
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INET Research in a Stressful Year
Feb 23, 2018
In the face of laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.
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Webinars and Events
Financial Networks
ConferenceBig Risks, Macroeconomic Externalities, and Policy Commitment Devices
Feb 23–24, 2018
The objective of the conference is to exchange perspectives on the risks posed by financial networks, and the role these networks play in the well-functioning of the real economy.
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Video
How Music Helped James Baldwin Make Sense of Inequality
Feb 21, 2018
Ed Pavlić discusses the role of music in communicating suffering and resistance in the African-American experience
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Article
Don't Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy.
Feb 20, 2018
Economist Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, and his colleague, literary critic and Slavic studies scholar Saul Morson, argue that—contrary to popular belief—studying the humanities is the key to not getting outsourced.