Archive
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YSI Event
History and Sociology of Emerging Markets
YSI
DiscussionJan 26–May 4, 2017
A Speaker Series for the Greater Philadelphia Region
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Video
Brunnermeier: Europe’s Future Will Be Settled By a Battle of Ideas
Jan 25, 2017
A conflict which revolves around key economic policy differences on questions such as rules vs. discretion, solidarity vs. liability, liquidity vs. solvency and austerity vs. stimulus.
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Article
Trumping Capitalism?
Jan 24, 2017
Donald Trump’s presidency is a symptom of an interregnum between economic orders – a period that will result in a new balance between state and market. While his administration’s economic policies are unlikely to provide the right answer, they may at least show the world what not to do.
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Article
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America's Crisis
Jan 23, 2017
Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand
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Article
Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers
Jan 23, 2017
From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics
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YSI Event
Institutional Responses to Financial Crises, 1870 to 2017 Webinar Series
YSI
DiscussionJan 23–Apr 3, 2017
The YSI Economic History Working Group and the YSI Financial Stability Working Group are hosting a webinar series on the “Institutional Responses to Financial Crises, 1870 to 2017”.
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Article
Remembering Tony Atkinson as the Architect of Modern Public Economics
Jan 19, 2017
Beatrice Cherrier remembers Tony Atkinson’s influential intellectual, educational and institutional contribution to the field of public economics
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Article
The Jobs Legacy of the Obama Presidency
Jan 19, 2017
Viewed in historical context, the weak recovery from the 2008 crisis has been slow and painful, but a sub-5% unemployment rate and healthy job and wage growth will be among the most important legacies Obama leaves to the next president
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Article
The Economics of the Affordable Care Act
Jan 17, 2017
Any effort to replace the Affordable Care Act will be confronted by the same structural imbalances in the health care economy that the legislation’s authors faced
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Article
Conflicts of Interest? Maybe Congress Should Look in the Mirror
Jan 11, 2017
New evidence shows personal wealth interests drive Congressional votes
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Article
Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy
Jan 9, 2017
As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz
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Article
America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy
Jan 6, 2017
A concentration of wealth and power that created a twin crisis of representation — in politics, and in expertise — set the stage for Donald Trump’s election victory, and has put America’s founding principles at risk
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Article
Race May be Pseudo-Science, But Economists Ignore it at their Peril
Jan 6, 2017
Presented by Professor Dan O’Flaherty at the Institute’s conference on the economics of race in Detroit on 11 November, 2016
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Article
INET's Turner Warns Against 'Fantasy' of Stimulating Economies Through Financial Deregulation
Jan 5, 2017
There is no good case for major deregulation of the US financial sector, warns INET Board Chairman Adair Turner, and any backsliding by a Trump administration on banks’ capital requirements instituted globally after 2008 will be very dangerous
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Article
Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State
Jan 5, 2017
Evidence thus far questions the assumption that robotics are eliminating jobs. INET Senior Vice President for Programs Rick McGahey says the UBI debate should focus on the long-term weakening of labor’s bargaining power