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Deutsche Welle: Can we avoid another financial crisis?
Oct 26, 2017
“Economist Steve Keen specializes in researching how private and public debt mountains arise and generate financial crises. In an interview with DW, he explains how the ECB could solve the problem — but probably won’t.”
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Euractiv: Oxfam chief: ‘We also feel the lack of trust among citizens’
Oct 24, 2017
“Winnie Byanyima believes it is high time to come up with fresh thinking in the world of politics and economy. But first, deeper self-criticism is needed across the board because all fields, including the NGO sector, are affected by a lack of trust from citizens.”
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News
Bloomberg: Inequality Is Biggest Danger for Global Growth, Warn Top Economists
Oct 24, 2017
Bloomberg highlights INET’s new Commission for Global Economic Transformation
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Research Program News
Inequality Is Biggest Danger for Global Growth, Warn Top Economists (Bloomberg News)
Oct 24, 2017
This article originally appeared on Bloomberg
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News
Euractiv: Catalonia, a viable independent state?
Oct 23, 2017
“Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz tells EURACTIV.com that the region would be accepted in the EU and therefore become a viable independent economy if it applied, but the former chair of the UK’s Financial Services Authority Adair Turner disagrees.”
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News
Bloomberg: Sturgeon Urges May to Shut Out Brexit Hardliners and Get a Deal
Oct 23, 2017
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon quoted by Bloomberg at INET’s Reawakening conference in Edinburgh
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Working Paper
Grantee paperEmpirical Research on the Revolving Door ‘Shadow Lobbyists’
Oct 2017
The US federal lobbying industry, based in Washington DC, is major focal point for political money and the exercise of influence, with expenditures peaking at approximately $2.5 billion per annum during the first Obama administration.
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Conference Session
The Real High Income Trap: Political Money, Political Establishments and Power
Oct 23, 2017 | 09:30
Not just an American dilemma: is political money in dual economies the biggest problem of all?
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Working Paper
Conference paperWhy Observation of the Behaviour of Human Actors and How They Combine Within the Economy, is an Important Next Step.
Oct 2017
One might think of the satisfied consensus reigning in macroeconomics before the financial crisis (and still relatively entrenched) as evidence of “Groupthink” in a “Divided State”
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Working Paper
Conference paperWhy central bank models failed and how to repair them
Oct 2017
The consensus that reigned in macroeconomics before the financial crisis has come under renewed attack.
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Conference Session
The Future of Macroeconomics
Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30
Macroeconomics and finance beyond DSG
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Conference Session
What's the Future?
Oct 23, 2017 | 08:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperCarbon producers’ tar pit: dinosaurs beware
Oct 2017
The path to holding fossil fuel producers accountable for climate change & climate damages
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Conference Session
In the Long Run Are We All Dead?
Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30
Climate Change and Denial
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Working Paper
Conference paperFinancial Reform Is Working, But Deregulation That Incentivizes One-Way Bets Is Sowing the Seeds of Another Catastrophic Financial Crash
Oct 2017
The deregulatory zeal of the 1990s and 2000s has returned to the US and the post-Brexit plans to protect the City in the UK sound like the pre-crash light-touch mentality that fueled global regulatory arbitrage. As a result, a foremost “challenge of our time” is to stop “subsidizing more one-way bets” and “doubling down on failure.”