Archive
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Video
Lazonick links stock buybacks to America’s jobs challenge
Nov 4, 2016
In an Al Jazeera documentary “In Search of the Great American Job”, Institute scholar William Lazonick offers some arch insights into the relationship between financialization — particularly the “shareholder value” ideology in corporations, which drives the transfer of profits to shareholders through stock buybacks — and job creation and inequality.
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Article
The Global Trade Slowdown is both True and Non-trivial
Nov 2, 2016
Economists offer widely different explanations for the decline in trade between nations, in a debate that remains unresolved but is increasingly urgent
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Article
‘A Grownup Conversation About Race and Class’: Rev. William Barber to Address Institute’s Detroit Conference
Nov 2, 2016
Renowned campaigner for social and economic justice to set the tone in conference keynote
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Video
‘Stratification’ Theory Tackles the Racial Blindspots of Orthodox Economics
Nov 2, 2016
Economist Darrick Hamilton and Institute President Rob Johnson discuss “stratification economics”, which addresses the failure of orthodox economics to see, explain and point to remedies for persistent racial inequality.
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Conference Session
The World Economy’s Growing Debt Burden
Nov 2, 2016 | 04:00—05:30
A conversation with Richard Vague, Managing Partner at Gabriel Investments and Chairman of the Governor’s Woods Foundation.
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Article
Easy Money is Dangerous Without Activist Fiscal Policy
Nov 1, 2016
Seven dangers of chronically low interest rates amid austerity and fiscal-policy phobia
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe EuroZone “Debt” Crisis: Another “Center” – “Periphery” Crisis Under Financial Globalization?
Nov 2016
This paper analyzes the Euro crisis in light of the experience of center-periphery relations over the last 40 years of renewed financial globalization.
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Article
Like Abusive Policing, Denial of Access to Mortgage Credit for Black Americans is a Growing Crisis
Oct 31, 2016
Black Americans remain second-class citizens in access to housing finance
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Article
Secular stagnation, bubbles and the legacy of the contraceptive pill
Oct 28, 2016
Oral contraception created a population that, today, is disproportionately inclined to save, resulting in low to negative real interest rates. Excess eurozone savings can only be accomodated by raising sovereign debt levels
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Article
How Gender Roles, Implicit Bias and Stereotypes Affect Women and Girls
Oct 27, 2016
Young women of all races and gender identities are powering movements from Black Lives Matter to immigration reform to reproductive justice to minimum wage and beyond. Researchers need to support their progress with metrics that capture the spirit they are building
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Article
Cook: Race-blind economics distorts data
Oct 27, 2016
Scholar sees Institute for New Economic Thinking conference as an important opportunity to discuss issues of race and economics, and of Detroit’s past and future
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Article
Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners
Oct 27, 2016
Offshoring manufacturing may have hurt many working people in America, but professionals and intellectual property have been robustly protected
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Article
Rashad Robinson: Building a Civil Rights Movement for the Digital Age
Oct 26, 2016
Wired profiles Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson and explores the challenges of movement-building in an era of digital activism
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Video
What Caused Detroit’s Demise?
Oct 26, 2016
Historian Prof. Thomas Sugrue offers a critique of the conventional wisdom that roots the city’s fate in the racial tension of the tumultuous ‘60s and the decline of the auto industry.
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Article
Baby Bonds: A Plan for Black/White Wealth Equality Conservatives Could Love?
Oct 25, 2016
Darrick Hamilton calls for spreading the benefits of asset-ownership to all Americans.