Archive
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Partnership
Kiel Institute
Economic activity cannot be explained solely by modeling rational behavior. Our partnership with the Kiel Institute brings interdisciplinary scholars together to develop new perspectives on human motivation and decision-making.
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Partnership
The Institute for New Economic Thinking at USC-Dornsife
A jointly-created research institute devoted to finding a more realistic way of thinking about the economy, using tools from decision theory and the theory of networks to tackle problems such as unemployment and inequality.
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Partnership
The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School
Our partnership with the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, is conducting visionary interdisciplinary research on a wide range of economic and public policy challenges.
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Video
Europe and the Challenge of Re-Starting Growth
Mar 13, 2015
How can we reconnect economic success to socioeconomic outcomes?
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Article
Get a TAN, Yanis: A Timely Alternative Financing Instrument for Greece
Mar 12, 2015
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Research Program
Human Capital and Economic Opportunity
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) is an interdisciplinary collaboration incorporating biological, sociological and psychological perspectives into traditional economic questions of inequality and human capital.
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Research Program
Financial Stability
As the pace of financial crises quickens and the volatility of economic shocks intensifies, we need new ways to understand and respond to instability. This program coordinates our research efforts on finance, macroeconomics, and monetary economics.
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Research Program
Political Economy of Distribution
Inequality and distribution—areas underserved by mainstream economics—sit at the heart of The Institute’s work. This program brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to develop alternative approaches to the problem of inequality.
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Article
New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals
Mar 10, 2015
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Article
Why Understanding Money Matters in Greece
Mar 6, 2015
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Video
Setting the Stage for the Next Financial Crisis
Mar 6, 2015
Michael Greenberger discusses the current state of play of regulatory reform and gives a barely passing grade.
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Article
Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?
Mar 6, 2015
Rana Dasgupta shares his view of the contradictions and tensions of India’s economic and political scenes.
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Article
Drooping Green Shoots
Mar 5, 2015
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Video
Argentina vs the Vultures
Mar 3, 2015
Cecilia Nahon, Argentina’s Ambassador to Washington, DC., discusses the issues plaguing the Argentine government in it’s attempts to conclude debt restructuring.
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Article
Paul Krugman on the MIT History
Mar 2, 2015
My friend and “grown-up kid” Yann Giraud just called my attention to Paul Krugman’s recent column, “Empire of the Institute”, on Roy Weintraub’s recently edited HOPE volume “MIT and the Transformation of American Economics” (to which three Playground kids contributed: Yann, Beatrice Cherrier and myself).