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William Greider: In Memoriam
Jan 12, 2020
William Greider, a pioneering economic journalist, passed away last month. We at INET are saddened by his loss, and in tribute to his legacy are sharing his essay from The Nation, “What Would Happen if Women Were In Charge of the Global Economy?”
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The 2020 Election in Three Graphs
Jan 10, 2020
The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object?
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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”
Jan 3, 2020
A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics
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Grant
Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020INET Taskforce in Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability: Networks and Externalities
The INET Taskforce in Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability, chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, focuses on the inefficiencies and instabilities that arise from the interaction of agents and institutions operating in networks and from pervasive macro-economic externalities, as well as on the macroeconomic inconsistencies that may result from those interactions.
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Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy
Dec 19, 2019
One thing is clear – the ‘get Brexit done’ slogan resonated in a country which had been living on a series of knife edges as one ‘crunch’ time after another came and went.
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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 15, 2019
Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
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Article
The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency
Dec 13, 2019
Many of the challenges facing the new EU Presidency will need to be addressed not only at the European level but within a reinvigorated multilateral framework.
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Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
Dec 12, 2019
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us.
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Video
Banning Buybacks
Dec 4, 2019
Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.
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Article
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Dec 2, 2019
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
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Video
Between Rational and Irrational
Nov 27, 2019
Columbia University’s Richard Robb talks about his new book on human behavior
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Article
Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
Nov 26, 2019
Repeat after me: How much pipe should Fed plumbers lay if Fed plumbers like to lay pipe?
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Article
The Decline of the US Labor Share Across Sectors
Nov 21, 2019
The U.S. economy is increasingly becoming a dual economy, where high productivity sectors—such as manufacturing—and high pay sectors—such as finance and professional services—co-exist with low pay and low productivity sectors that employ most workers.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Decline of the U.S. Labor Share Across Sectors
Nov 2019
This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.