Archive
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Video
Globalization, Populism, & the Politics of Resentment
Feb 12, 2025
How did hyper-globalization fuel populist backlash?
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Article
Breaking the Moat: DeepSeek and the Democratization of AI
Feb 10, 2025
DeepSeek’s appearance is changing the AI landscape in more ways than we might think.
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News
Wall Street Journal Cited Wright’s INET Working Paper on the Fortune 500 of 1812
Feb 10, 2025
Wall Street Journal
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News
The Financial Times Cited Lazonick’s INET-Funded Research Into Big Pharma’s Financialized Business Model
Feb 7, 2025
The Financial Times
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Article
James K. Galbraith on His Latest Book, DOGE, Bitcoin & More
Feb 6, 2025
The distinguished economist talks about the power of entropy in shaping a new economic reality and viewing current events. His new book, Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production, challenges flawed mainstream models that lead to distortions and bad policy.
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The Dignity Deficit: Inequality, Work, & Recognition
Feb 5, 2025
Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel explore how inequality isn’t just about wealth—it’s about dignity. They discuss how economic structures fail to value workers without elite credentials and propose solutions that go beyond redistribution.
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News
Appelbaum and Batt Cite Their INET-Funded Research in the Boston Globe
Feb 3, 2025
Boston Globe
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Video
Fixing Global Debt
Jan 29, 2025
We need a new blueprint for stability.
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Article
How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It
Jan 28, 2025
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
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Video
The Ripple Effect of Automatic Enrollment
Jan 22, 2025
Automatic enrollment in retirement plans is a game-changer, but it also brings unexpected consequences.
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Article
How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics
Jan 21, 2025
If there is no universally accepted outside authority to tell us how to judge theories then knowledge is only going to progress by means of debate
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Webinars and Events
International Conference on Social Identities, Institutions, and Economic Development in South Asia
ConferenceAzim Premji University Bhopal - INET - YSI Conference
Jan 17–18, 2025
The Economics Group at Azim Premji University, Bhopal, India, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and its Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI), is pleased to announce an international conference aimed at exploring the intricate relationships between social identities, institutions, and economic development in South Asia.
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Video
How Mutual Funds Shape Society
Jan 15, 2025
The power of mutual funds to influence economic and social choices through their voting behavior points to deeper ideologies driving institutional investors.
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Article
The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve
Jan 13, 2025
Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not.
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Article
How to Reclaim America’s ‘Democracy’ From the Big Finance Oligarchy
Jan 6, 2025
Sociologist Michael A. McCarthy’s latest book shows how ordinary people can take back control of financial capitalism and make it work for them.