Archive
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Stiglitz: Bad News Awaits America's Workers
Dec 28, 2016
Campaign promises aside, the policies favored by President-elect Donal Trump are likely to bring more pain than gain to working-class Americans
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Video
Garza Parsing America’s Backlash
Dec 27, 2016
Black Lives Matter movement co-founder Alicia Garza, addressing the Institute’s Detroit conference on the economics of race, placed the turmoil created by the 2016 election in the context of a backlash against the gains made by social movements challenging racial and social injustice. She argued that those movements now need, more than ever, “to show up for one another” at a local level to protect those gains
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Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory
Dec 26, 2016
The prominence of the debate over ‘reswitching’ has obscured the importance of Piero Sraffa’s profound contribution to economics. It’s time to revisit and build on that body of work
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Video
Volcker on the Treasury and the Fed, Regulation and More
Dec 24, 2016
Former Treasury Secretary Paul Volcker reviews a life’s work and the pressing challenges of the moment in conversation with Institute for New Economic Thinking President Rob Johnson
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Article
Reality Check: What Economists Talk About When They Talk About the Chinese Economy
Dec 23, 2016
Beneath the heated political rhetoric over U.S.-China economic ties lies an increasingly complex reality
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Article
If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous
Dec 22, 2016
Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it
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Collection
2016 in Review
Significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric
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Chanos: Is a big change underway in global capitalism?
Dec 21, 2016
Milwaukee-born short-seller Jim Chanos, founder and managing partner of New York-based Kynikos Associates, teaches University of Wisconsin and Yale business students about corporate fraud. During his life and career, he has witnessed seismic shifts in economic thinking and the relationship between labor and capital. Chanos shares his thoughts on the world emerging from the election of Donald Trump and the tumultuous political events of 2016.
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Article
A New Tool For Teaching Pluralist Economics
Dec 20, 2016
Students in Europe have created an important resource for those seeking alternative curricular materials
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Video
Why Economic Analysis Can’t Ignore Racial Categories
Dec 20, 2016
What Donald Trump does well, Professor john a. powell explains, is link economic concerns with ontological and racial concerns among his voters. Many economists and social justice activists, by contrast, try to reduce racial concerns to economic and class concerns. His presentation demonstrates the centrality, conscious or unconscious, of belonging and ‘otherness’ in comprehending the structures of society.
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Article
Inequality in the United States: A Darkening Horizon
Dec 19, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking-backed research into inequality explores how taxes and government policy have contributed to deepening economic inequality
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Article
Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty
Dec 19, 2016
In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world
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Article
Many Politicians Voting for the TARP Bailout Protected Their Own Wealth
Dec 16, 2016
Amid heightened focus on conflicts of interests, new research shows how legislators’ votes on the 2008 bank bailout tracked with the exposure to peril of their personal stock portfolios
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The Geopolitics of Populism
Dec 13, 2016
The big question in Asian countries right now is what lesson to take from Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, and from the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, in which British voters opted to leave the European Union. Unfortunately, the focus is not where it should be: geopolitical change.
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Conference Session
The Trump Agenda and the Economic and Investment Outlook for 2017
Dec 13, 2016 | 04:00—05:30
A discussion on President-elect Trump’s economic agenda and its implications for the U.S. and world economies.