Archive
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Article
Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
Jan 7, 2022
How did this dire situation come about?
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News
OSF and INET Complete 12 Year Collaboration on New Economic Thinking
Jan 5, 2022
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced that OSF has made a gift of $23.5 million to INET. The grant marks the completion of the organizations’ 12-year collaboration.
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Article
Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
Jan 4, 2022
Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.
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Article
Introducing the Novelty-Narrative Hypothesis
Dec 16, 2021
A new view of stock market instability under Knightian uncertainty
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Working Paper
Working PaperAsset Prices Under Knightian Uncertainty
Dec 2021
A tractable formalization of the Knightian uncertainty faced by an economist and market participants in an intertemporal asset-price model.
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Article
Models of Temperature and Economic Growth: Some Cautionary Remarks
Dec 14, 2021
Many studies of the effect of climate change on GDP seriously mislead the research community, policymakers, and the general public.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesCan Panel Data Methodologies Determine the Impact of Climate Change on Economic Growth?
Dec 2021
Some cautionary remarks
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Video
Our Own Worst Enemy
Dec 13, 2021
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.
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Article
Remembering Geoffrey Harcourt (1931 - 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
The INET community mourns Harcourt’s passing
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Webinars and Events
Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.3 -The Path for India's Climate Transition
Conference6:00-7:30pm IST | 12:30-2:00pm GMT | 7:30-9:00am EST
Dec 10, 2021
The 4th Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) is a virtual, multi-capsule conference series that aims to bring together legal, economic and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
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Article
Should Central Bank Liquidity Provision Be a Vehicle for Fiscal Discipline?
Dec 8, 2021
By helping abate the liquidity crisis, incidences of banks becoming insolvent are reduced, and hence moral hazard in its severest form is minimized.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesCentral Banks Caught Between Market Liquidity and Fiscal Disciplining: A Money View Perspective on Collateral Policy
Dec 2021
By helping abate the liquidity crisis, incidences of banks becoming insolvent are reduced, and hence moral hazard in its severest form is minimized.
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Video
A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Dec 6, 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China’s Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.
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Article
Looking for a Libertarian Who’s Not Afraid of History
Dec 2, 2021
A response to Phillip Magness in The Wall Street Journal
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Video
The Legacy of Systemic Racism
Dec 1, 2021
How systemic racism of the past continues to haunt the present.