Archive
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Conference Session
Scottish First Minister Opens #INET2017
Oct 21, 2017 | 11:00
Nicola Sturgeon covers a range of topics including how economists’ work relates to policymaking, the financial crisis and the dangers of groupthink, how dissatisfaction with stagnating wages and rising inequality played into political shocks like Brexit, the legacy of Adam Smith, why new economic thinking is so important, and what her government is doing to foster and apply it.
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Research Program News
Nobel Laureates Stiglitz, Spence Lead New Group to Tackle World's Economic Woes (Bloomberg News)
Oct 21, 2017
This article originally appeared on Bloomberg
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Webinars and Events
Reawakening
PlenaryFrom the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time
Oct 21–23, 2017
INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.
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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