469 Videos
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A Computer Simulation of Monetary Dynamics
Feb 1, 2014
Sometimes new tools are what we need to create new thinking.
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The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
Jan 22, 2014
Lazonick discusses how we evolved from a society in which corporate interests were largely aligned with those of broader public purpose into a state where crony capitalism, accounting fraud, and corporate predation are predominant characteristics.
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Financial Reform in a Crisis: The Swedish Solution
Jan 3, 2014
Did the so-called “Scandinavian approach” offer a better alternative than the Geithner plan?
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Beyond Representative-Agent Macroeconomics
Jan 3, 2014
Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho, grantees of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, have individually been exploring two possible alternative analytical entry points: mean field methods from physics and stock flow consistent modeling from accounting. The idea behind their grant is to work together to combine these two approaches, the first bottom-up and the second top-down.
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Finance to Support Growth
Dec 12, 2013
What is most demoralizing to participants in the financial markets? Falling prices? Constant volatility? How about a vacuum of trust?
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Time for a New Approach for Unemployment?
Dec 8, 2013
More than five years after the fall of Lehman Brothers we are still dealing with the problem of high unemployment, the worst kind of “waste” in economic theory. Is there a better approach?
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The Moral Limits of Markets
Dec 3, 2013
What happens when a market-based economy becomes a market-based society?
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Mazzucato and Kaletsky Debate U.K. Mortgage Plan on BBC
Nov 27, 2013
The Bank of England took the first step in putting the brakes on the surging property market as it scrapped the United Kingdom’s flagship initiative that encourages mortgage lending, introduced earlier this year by Treasury minster George Osborne.
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The Continuing Risk of Derivatives
Nov 19, 2013
Jan Kregel on the Continuing Risk of Derivatives
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What Do Management Consultants Do?
Nov 18, 2013
Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Kimberley Chong thinks about it in a different way, by viewing management consultancy through the lens of cultural anthropology.
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The Economics of Uncertainty
Nov 6, 2013
Studies in psychology, neuroscience, biology, and many of the social sciences have long illustrated that human beings react very different from what economics textbooks tell you to expect when they are operating under conditions of radical uncertainty.
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What Math and Physics Can Do for New Economic Thinking
Oct 29, 2013
In this interview, Eric Weinstein explores many creative ways that physics and more sophisticated forms of math can be used to rescue economics from itself and restore its now tarnished reputation.
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What Causes Inequality? An Econophysics Approach
Oct 23, 2013
In standard economics, inequality in outcomes is typically attributed to inequality of inputs, for example, from differences in education. Yakovenko thinks about inequality in a different way by extending some ideas from statistical physics.
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Bringing History to Economics
Oct 17, 2013
This episode features grantee D’Maris Coffman of the Centre for Financial History talking about her organization’s commitment to a New Financial History and what the fruits of their approach can tell us about modern debt crises and sustainable debt levels.
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Solving the Euro Zone Crisis
Oct 15, 2013
This episode features Pier Carlo Padoan, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, talking about the euro zone crisis, Europe’s structural problems, and how uncertainty has damaged economic growth in Europe.