Archive
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Video
Exploring the Economics of Race
Nov 30, 2016
Columbia professor Dan O’Flaherty explains how an awareness of racial trauma developed from growing up in Newark inspired him to write and teach on the economics of race.
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Collection
Political Turmoil
Viewing economic outcomes as divorced from politics risks serious misunderstanding and virtually ensures regulatory failure.
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Article
Bracing for Trumponomics
Nov 29, 2016
What we’re reading: Some analysts expect dramatic changes and a short-term boost to the US economy, others predict continuity — and see Trump’s election reflecting a sea change in the global order
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Article
India: Demonetization and its Discontents
Nov 28, 2016
By suddenly eliminating two widely used bank notes, India’s government risks undermining public confidence in the basic means of exchange
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Article
Trump Election and the Future of U.S. Global Leadership
Nov 28, 2016
Surviving the geopolitical and economic challenges of the coming years requires a world order less vulnerable to the vagaries of U.S. elections
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Article
Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Nov 23, 2016
How orthodox economics paved the way for the political shocks of 2016
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YSI Event
Prosperity without Growth with Prof. Tim Jackson
YSI
DiscussionNov 23, 2016
The YSI Working Group on Economic Development, the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC) of the University of Greenwich, and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) would like to invite you to a talk by Professor Tim Jackson.
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Collection
Trade
International trade and investment are vital drivers of economic growth. As the size and shape of the world economy enters a new period of change, trade patterns reflect an evolving reality
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Article
Economists and Trump: Straight Talk on Trade
Nov 20, 2016
By suppressing important questions in favor of being cheerleaders for globalization, economists failed to influence the public conversation
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Article
Why is Economics Still Largely a White Male Preserve?
Nov 17, 2016
How economics underperforms in diversity, and some potential remedies
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Article
Trade Liberalization After the U.S. Election
Nov 16, 2016
The TPP is dead, as is the assumption that future free-trade agreements can be negotiated by experts alone
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Article
Why Economic Recovery Requires Rethinking Capitalism
Nov 15, 2016
Mission-oriented public investment is vital to spur a revival of private-sector investment
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Conference Session
China: Challenges for the Next Administration
Nov 15, 2016 | 04:00—05:30
A conversation with Isaac Stone Fish, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center for U.S. – China Relations and Asia Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine.
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Article
Black Lives Still Matter
Nov 12, 2016
Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, shares a vision of how to bring economic opportunity to women of color
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Working Paper
Conference paperTides and Prejudice: Racial Attitudes During Downturns in the United States 1979-2014
Nov 2016
This paper analyzes white attitudes towards African Americans in the United States at different points in a business cycle from 1979- 2014.