Archive
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Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
Jul 28, 2020
When people recognize just how dangerous covid is, they worry more about the economy
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Professor Njuguna Ndung’u: COVID-19 is a wake-up call to reform the healthcare system and make it inclusive for all
Jul 24, 2020
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Njuguna Ndung’u, a Kenyan economist, Director of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a pan-African organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in sub-Saharan Africa, and former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (2007-2015) analyses how the pandemic creates more fragility in African economies, but also how reforms could be implemented during this crisis; and the urgent need for investment in strong health institutional capacities
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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
Jul 24, 2020
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect
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Working Paper
Working PaperHow “Maximizing Shareholder Value” Minimized the Strategic National Stockpile: The $5.3 Trillion Question for Pandemic Preparedness Raised by the Ventilator Fiasco
Jul 2020
The success of projects for pandemic preparedness and response depends on the strength of government-business collaborations.
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Webinars and Events
The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy
Webinarwith Erik Brynjolfsson | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Jul 23, 2020
Technology has played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitating remote work and automating certain pandemic responses. But it has also accelerated technological adoption, and the “future of work” may now be the present.
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Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Jul 22, 2020
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
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Economics & Beyond Podcast
Jul 22, 2020
Rob Johnson is not your average economist, and this is not your average economics podcast.
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Webinars and Events
Debt Talks Episode 1 | The Secular Rise of Debt
Webinarmoderated by Moritz Schularick with Laura Carvalho, Matthew C. Klein, and Amir Sufi | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Hosted by Private Debt
Jul 21, 2020
A webinar panel discussion moderated by INET Fellow Moritz Schularick, with Laura Carvalho, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Matthew C. Klein, Economics Commentator at Barron’s, and Amir Sufi, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Immaculate Deception
Jul 20, 2020
How and Why Bankers Still Enjoy a Global Rescue Network
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesImmaculate Deception: How (and Why) Bankers Still Enjoy a Global Rescue Network
Jul 2020
A look at Dodd-Frank’s impact
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There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Jul 16, 2020
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
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Working Paper SeriesEmployment and Earnings of African Americans Fifty Years After: Progress?
Jul 2020
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
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Webinars and Events
Building a Global Economic Response to COVID-19
Webinarwith Mohamed A. El-Erian | 12:30pm ET / 9:30 PT
Jul 16, 2020
As the world economy seeks to emerge from the deep recession caused by the pandemic, economic nationalism and isolationism are on the rise. Yet the better response to lower growth and worsening inequality could involve globally-coordinated policy responses that focus on broad based, sustainable economic growth. Now more than ever it is time for a new global economic policy paradigm that can facilitate a strong recovery.
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Video
Should We Remain Hopeful About Globalization?
Jul 15, 2020
A closer look at unique structural conditions is essential
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Never Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Jul 13, 2020
Coming out of the Great Depression, America built a middle class, but systematic discrimination kept most African-American families from being part of it