Archive
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Article
Non-US banks gain from Fed crisis fund
Dec 28, 2010
Why is this a surprise?
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Article
Connecting the dots in Euroland
Dec 25, 2010
Today’s Financial Times article: ECB: trick or Trichet (Dec 2)
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News
Avoiding a Bleak Future for the Euro
Dec 14, 2010
In a recent piece in the Financial Times, George Soros makes the case that, to avoid a bleak future for the euro and the European Union in general, Europe should take steps to recapitalize banks before bailing out member states. In the piece, Soros discusses issues that INET is very interested in exploring further, such as the idea that flaws in macroeconomic theory helped lead to the financial crisis of 2008.
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(Shadow) Bank Capital
Dec 5, 2010
Is raising required bank capital the answer?
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Article
Understanding Ireland
Nov 30, 2010
What’s really going on with Europe’s bailout of the Irish Economy
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News
How would Joe Stiglitz Would Fix the Economy
Nov 16, 2010
Can the Economy be Saved? The Los Angeles Times recently asked a number of economic experts about whether they thought the post-financial crisis economy can be saved, and if so, how.
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Article
Market Volatility and QE2
Nov 15, 2010
The first thing to say about QE2 is that it is a very different operation from QE1.
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News
The Deficit Debate
Oct 5, 2010
Will public deficit reduction encourage private sector growth, or undermine a needed stimulus to recovery & lead to Japan-style stagnation?
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America Needs Stimulus, Not Virtue
Oct 4, 2010
What does America need?
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Webinars and Events
Toward an Alternative Macroeconomic Theory
ConferenceBudapest 2010
Sep 6–8, 2010
The Institute joined DIME and Central European University in hosting a conference addressing a key question of economics today: How can we create a new macroeconomic theory that takes into account the true relationship of finance to the real economy and can more accurately anticipate crises?
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Moving Beyond Washington’s Stale Economic Debate
Aug 30, 2010
In a recent column in the Huffington Post, INET advisory board member Jeffrey Sachs made the case that the economic debate in Washington has become “stale” and politicized - and needs to be reframed. This is poignantly relevant to INET, as we begin to make headway on helping to create a new economic paradigm.
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Front Page of the NYT: Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
Aug 23, 2010
The New York Times has now pushed to the front page of today’s paper an issue of real relevance to INET: how new web tools are beginning to upend traditional peer review in academia.
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Joseph Stiglitz in the Financial Times on the Need for a New Economic Paradigm
Aug 18, 2010
Joseph Stiglitz, noted economist, Nobel Laureate and Institute advisor, had a letter published in the Financial Times yesterday. In it, he noted the need for new ways of thinking about economics, and how this can be achieved.
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Reinhart and Rogoff Clarify Debt Findings
Aug 10, 2010
What is the relationship between debt and growth rates?
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China Needs Slower, Better Growth
Aug 8, 2010
Is China growing too fast?