Archive
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Article
How Bankers Hide Losses
Sep 24, 2020
Like master illusionists, bank accountants conceal losses from federal regulators, putting the whole economy at risk
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesMasters of Illusion: Bank and Regulatory Accounting for Losses in Distressed Banks
Sep 2020
The study seeks to explain why the instruments of central banking inevitably break down over time.
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Video
One Nation, Under Finance
Sep 23, 2020
Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn’t that happened?
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Article
The Master and the Prodigy
Sep 22, 2020
INET’s co-founder reviews new books about John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey
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Webinars and Events
The Future of Work | What's at Stake?
Webinarmoderated by Steve Clemons with James Manyika and Michael Spence
Sep 22, 2020
Advancements in automation and artificial intelligence are quickly reaching tipping points, yet our policies, institutions and mindsets are woefully outdated. What will work look like in the future, and how do we secure a future that works for all?
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Webinars and Events
Research Webinar & Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality From Reagan to Trump
WebinarSep 18, 2020
A discussion with Lance Taylor and Özlem Ömer, authors of INET’s new book Macroeconomics Inequality from Reagan to Trump
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Article
How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South
Sep 15, 2020
For thirty years after the Civil Rights Act, a sizable share of white Southerners still voted Democrat. That changed when the party embraced trade deals that hurt American workers.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesVoting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South
Sep 2020
How NAFTA led to GOP dominance of the American South
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Webinars and Events
Debt Talks Episode 2 | Debt, Wealth, and Racial Inequalities
Webinarmoderated by Moritz Schularick with Mehrsa Baradaran, Ashley C. Harrington, Darrick Hamilton and Louise Seamster
Hosted by Private Debt
Sep 15, 2020
Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.
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Article
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Sep 11, 2020
Why freeing American households and businesses from crippling private debt would be a boon to the economy. Article reposted from DemocracyJournal.org.
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Article
Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
Sep 10, 2020
This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.
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Article
America’s Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework. This Economist Has One.
Sep 10, 2020
In a new book from Cambridge University Press, Lance Taylor reveals that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.
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Article
What Happens When a Noted Female Economist Fights Toxic Culture in the Field?
Sep 9, 2020
Claudia Sahm dares to call out systemic bullying and harassment that drives out talent and compromises science. Perpetrators are not happy.
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Video
Globalization's Discontents
Sep 9, 2020
The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward.
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Article
Summary of the Book Macroeconomic Inequality From Reagan to Trump
Sep 3, 2020
Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Structural Change Caused Rising Macroeconomic Inequality for Fifty Years from before Reagan through Trump.This is a summary of a new book that is being published as part of a new book series with Cambridge University Press.