Archive
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Conference Session
George Soros on the Future of Europe
Apr 10, 2015 | 03:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperFrom Terrible to Terrific Undergraduate Economics Curricula
Apr 2015
Among the areas left largely unscathed by the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent never-‐ending recession, the teaching of economics ranks high.
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Eurozone crisis: A debt shortage as the final cause
Apr 2015
This paper proposes a different interpretation of the Eurozone crisis, seeing as its “final” cause European policies which have forced private savings down too low.
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Working Paper
Conference paperWhat's Wrong With Economics?
Apr 2015
Hubris might well head the list
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Conference Session
The Eurozone Crisis: Fiscal Profligacy Or Capital Flows As Final Causes
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:30—08:00
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Conference Session
Ukraine & The Future of Europe
Apr 10, 2015 | 08:00—08:30
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Conference Session
Durable Inequality and Individual Differences in Capacities and Behavior
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:15—07:45
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Conference Session
Teaching Economics
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:00—08:30
This panel covers the teaching of economics at the university level.
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Conference Session
Finance, Sustainability and the Environment
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:15—08:45
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Conference Session
Economics Curriculum for Activists
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:00—07:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperAusteritarianism in Europe: What Options for Resistance?
Apr 2015
In much of Europe, the social rights and social protections won in the first post-war decades, by labour movements in particular, have subsequently been seriously eroded, and are further threatened by neoliberal austerity.
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Working Paper
Conference paperEmbedding GroupThink
Apr 2015
This memo outlines key concepts and the methodological approach involved in a recently funded Institute for New Economic Thinking project. Our aim is to pinpoint the relationship between the reception of academic ideas, traced by citation networks with qualitative coding, and positions of institutional and political power.
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Conference paperReflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria: economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments
Apr 2015
We discuss recent work on bounded rationality and learning in relation to Soros’ principle of reflexivity and stress the empirical importance of non-rational, almost self-fulfilling equilibria in positive feedback systems.
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Conference paperLinking Individual and Community Economic Mobility: The Spatial Foundations of Persistent Inequality in the United States
Apr 2015
Considerable academic and public attention has been drawn to the pulling away of the very rich—the so-called “one percent” whose gains have far outpaced those of everyone else (Piketty 2014). But the debate has reached well beyond the very top, especially in the United States.Indeed, the hollowing out of the middle class, continuing stagnation of wages, and new evidence on the lack of upward mobility across generations all strike at the very heart of the American ideal.
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Conference paperItaly's Crisis: Neither Fiscal Profligacy nor Capital Flows
Apr 2015
Italy was one of the worst hit during the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) among the major advanced economies. By year-end 2009, Italy’s economy had contracted by 6.6 percent; significantly larger than the recessions in the euro zone and the United States, for example, which saw their GDPs shrink by 4.4 and 3.1 percent, respectively.