Archive
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Article
Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now
Oct 20, 2017
What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?
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Article
What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?
Oct 20, 2017
Animal rights, child welfare, social equality are all a direct legacy of the “cult of feeling”
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YSI Event
Festival for New Economic Thinking
YSI
ConferenceOct 19–20, 2017
The Festival for New Economic Thinking is a collaborative initiative of several organizations, and aims to bring together those who seek to improve how economics is taught, studied and practiced.
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Article
Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?
Oct 14, 2017
Financial Globalization and its Cryptocurrency Discontents
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Article
“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
Oct 10, 2017
Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale
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Conference Session
Brexit and the European Union: One Year On
Oct 10, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
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Article
America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
Oct 6, 2017
Why it’s time to repeal the debt ceiling and replace it with a ‘truth in borrowing’ act
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Article
How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
Oct 5, 2017
The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense
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Webinars and Events
Talking Economics Global Finance and Reform in India
DiscussionOct 5, 2017
Adair Turner in conversation with Nasser Munjee, moderated by David Webb
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Conference Session
Is Europe’s Economic Recovery for Real?
Oct 3, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
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Working Paper
Working paperInnovative Enterprise Solves the Agency Problem
Oct 2017
The Theory of the Firm, Financial Flows, and Economic Performance
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Collection
#INET2017
Material from, and related to, INET’s 2017 conference: Reawakening
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Video
Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
Sep 27, 2017
“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power
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Conference Session
American Big Tech vs. China Big Tech: Common Challenges or Conflicting Concerns?
Sep 26, 2017 | 08:15—09:45
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Video
Economies Live in Societies. Why Do So Few Economists Acknowledge That?
Sep 20, 2017
Rather than continue to narrow the field, economists need to ask what they’re missing