Archive
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Article
Pathways & Obstacles to a Low-carbon Economy
Apr 27, 2017
The energy transition is happening. But the pace of change depends on a range of technical, business, and societal factors.
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Collection
America's Dual Economy: Why the Middle Class Is Vanishing
A collection of INET research and articles on how and why the middle class has been shrinking and how this leads to a “dual economy”
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YSI Event
Rethinking Economics and Economic History in Zimbabwe: Theory and Practice
YSI
WorkshopApr 22, 2017
Workshop of the YSI Africa Working Group
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Article
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
Apr 20, 2017
A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds
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Video
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
Apr 19, 2017
How rationalization, marketization, and globalization characterize the U.S. economy during the past 50 years, and how the behavior of companies and fate of American workers have changed during this process.
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YSI Event
PhD Workshop at the Fourth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference
YSI
WorkshopApr 19–21, 2017
The YSI Keynesian Economics Working Group is co-hosting a PhD seminar at the Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference entitled “Economics at the Edge”.
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YSI Event
YSI @ ATGENDER
Participate in a conference session organized by YSI Gender and Economics Working Group
YSI
DiscussionApr 19–20, 2017
The YSI Working group on Gender and Economics invites young scholars to partake in their session at the ATGENDER spring conference
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Article
Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
Apr 17, 2017
“The humility to accept that economic propositions cannot be universal would save us from self-defeating arrogance.” Economist Amit Bhaduri adds his perspective to our Experts on Trial discussion.
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Article
The Moral Burden on Economists
Apr 13, 2017
In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.
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YSI Event
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YSI
DiscussionApr 13–15, 2017
INET
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YSI Event
Fiscal Union, Social Europe: Synergies and Tensions
YSI
WorkshopApr 13–14, 2017
The YSI Political Economy of Europe Working Group invites young scholars to partake in a Research Seminar aiming to investigate the interplay between fiscal policy in the European Union and domestic social policies of its member states.
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Video
Making Innovation Work for China and other Developing Countries
Apr 12, 2017
Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.
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Article
Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs
Apr 6, 2017
Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions
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Video
A Turbulent Capitalist Economy: The vision of Anwar Shaikh
Apr 5, 2017
In a recent interview at the INET offices in New York, Anwar Shaikh provided a background to the work and his life in this quest.
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Article
The Outskirts of Hope: Poverty in America
Apr 4, 2017
The “War on Poverty,” and the impact of public policy