Archive
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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.
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Article
Yellen Challenges Economists Amid Elusive Great Recovery
Oct 24, 2016
Like the Great Depression and the stagflation of the ’70s, the anemic growth of the U.S. economy can’t be understood or remedied without changes in economists’ thinking
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Video
The War on Crime, not crime itself, fueled Detroit’s post-1967 decline
Oct 24, 2016
In this Q-and-A, historian and National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson argues that draconian police tactics in black Detroit neighborhoods had as much to do with the city’s decimation as white flight and lost jobs.
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Article
Sex Uncensored
Oct 21, 2016
Improvements in data collection create potential for better outcomes for the LGBT community.
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Video
Clinton Likely to Win, But Struggle in 2020 Unless She Changes Course
Oct 20, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking President Robert Johnson, in an appearance of the CNN International show Quest Means Business, warns that the anger of Trump’s supporters is unlikely to ebb absent significant economic and political changes — and that this anger could be more successfully marshaled by a more skilled and sophisticated Republican challenger four years from now.
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Article
Why Can’t Economics See Race?
Oct 19, 2016
Theoretical dogmas that are literally blind to the causes of the racism that determines the economic fates of most African-Americans leaves the economics profession unable to comprehend or recognize remedies for a key driver of America’s crippling inequality. Instead, conventional economic models unmindfully shape policies that actually exacerbate racial conflict.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and the Stabilization of Financial Markets
Oct 2016
We examine whether personal wealth interests affect politicians’ decisions about stabilizing financial markets.
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YSI Event
Piecing Together a Paradigm
YSI Plenary
YSI
ConferenceOct 19–22, 2016
New approaches are being developed, but efforts are fragmented and need to be brought together if we hope to piece together a paradigm.
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Article
Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
Oct 18, 2016
William Darity, Jr. has a new key to unlocking the mystery of inequality: stratification economics.
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Article
Unemployment Insurance Extension During Great Recession Did Not Destroy Jobs
Oct 13, 2016
Social safety nets don’t always need to come with a dark side
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Video
Investigating ‘Secular Stagnation’
Oct 13, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking launches a far-reaching research effort into causes and potential remedies for the low-to-no-growth malaise afflicting many of the world’s leading economies
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Conference Session
New Nationalist Challenges to Globalization: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Oct 13, 2016 | 06:00—07:30
A conversation with Robert Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, former Managing Director for Soros Fund Management and former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee.
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YSI Event
'How much is Enough?' with Robert Skidelky
YSI
DiscussionOct 12, 2016
The epidemic extension of working hours and difficulty in maintaining work-life balance raises the question of the point of income and leisure satisfaction.
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Article
James Boyce Wins 2016 Leontief Award for Work on Environmental Inequality
Oct 11, 2016
Institute grantee Boyce cited for integrating ‘ecological, developmental and justice-oriented approaches’ into economics
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Article
Three Things to Know to Hold Wells Fargo Accountable
Oct 11, 2016
Justice requires that the media, policy makers, and the public understand why corporations engage in misconduct and fraud