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Research Program News
Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence head commission to tackle problems of global economy (Sunday Times)
Oct 22, 2017
This article originally appeared in The Sunday Times of London
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News
Bloomberg: Nobel Laureates Stiglitz, Spence Lead New Group to Tackle World's Economic Woes
Oct 22, 2017
Stiglitz speaks to Bloomberg about INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation
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News
The Edinburgh Reporter: Sturgeon opens conference in Edinburgh
Oct 21, 2017
“First Minister Nicola Sturgeon opened a conference attended by some of the world’s leading economists in Edinburgh earlier today explaining some of the economic challenges Scotland faces”
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Working Paper
Conference paperA Fiscal Union. Is it likely? Would it be enough?
Oct 2017
The current crisis is the culmination of a process of integration that has profoundly changed the structure of each member state, their inter-relations and their power relations. One of its side effects was the rediscovery of the terms ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ to analyse the economic situations of the European countries.
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Working Paper
Conference paperMacroeconomic stabilization, monetary-fiscal interactions, and Europe’s monetary union
Oct 2017
The euro area has been experiencing a prolonged period of weak economic activity and very low inflation.
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Working Paper
Conference paperHow a Flawed Structure is Hurting the Eurozone—Economically and Politically
Oct 2017
The wind appears to be back in the sails of the Eurozone economy ….
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Working Paper
Conference paperPower or Economic Law?
Oct 2017
Some fresh reflections on ECB policy
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Conference Session
The Future of the Eurozone
Oct 21, 2017 | 12:30
Can a monetary union without true banking and fiscal union be saved? What remains of the hopes that animated the Treaty of Rome?
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Conference Session
INET and Economics in Cambridge
Oct 21, 2017 | 06:35—07:20
A discussion of new economic thinking over the years at Cambridge, and its recent contributions via the Cambridge-INET Institute
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Conference Session
Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Oct 21, 2017 |
Adam Smith and his contemporaries were key figures of the Scottish enlightenment. How much of his real thought survives in modern economics, and has something important been lost?
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Working Paper
Conference paperOn Adam Smith
Oct 2017
Given that this is a panel on that quintessential Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, I can think of no better way to begin my remarks than to invoke that most enlightened of modern economists, Kenneth Boulding, who in 1971 penned the delightful essay, “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?”
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Working Paper
Conference paper“Come forth into the light of things”: William Wordsworth’s Human Challenge to Economic Thinking
Oct 2017
When priests and princes lost their monopoly over the big questions of human existence over the course of the Enlightenment, philosophers, poets, and ordinary people struggled to find out the answers on their own.
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Working Paper
Conference paperAdam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, and ‘realistic’ Philosophy
Oct 2017
Adam Smith’s modern fame as the founding father of economics has, until relatively recently, obscured the fact that he saw himself as a moral philosopher.
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Working Paper
Conference paperReawakening: From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time
Oct 2017
The road towards a decent society; lessons from classical political economy
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Vanishing Middle Class: The Growth of a Dual Economy
Oct 2017
Growing income inequality is threatening the American middle class, and the middle class is vanishing before our eyes. We are still one country, but the stretch of incomes is fraying the unity of our nation.