Archive
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Video
Economics for People
Sep 11, 2019
Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.
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How & How NOT to Do Economics
Sep 11, 2019
What is economics for? What is it about? How should it be done? How can it be of use to us? How is it connected to morals and politics?
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Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa
Sep 9, 2019
An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town
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Webinars and Events
The Centenary Conference on the Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace
ConferenceSep 9–10, 2019
Cambridge-INET is proud to announce a major conference on Keynes’s 1919 book.
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Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019
Sep 6, 2019
Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.
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Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
Sep 4, 2019
How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs
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Is History Important?
Sep 4, 2019
An animated look at economic history with Robert Skidelsky
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INET Economists Respond to Summers & Stansbury
Lance Taylor, Servaas Storm, Mario Seccareccia and Marc Lavoie comment on Lawrence Summers and Anna Stansbury’s article titled “Whither Central Banking?”
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Central Banks, Secular Stagnation, and Loanable Funds
Sep 3, 2019
A Comment on Summers and Stansbury
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Article
Summers and the Road to Damascus
Sep 3, 2019
Why Pushing on a String Has Never Worked
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Central Bankers, Inflation, and the Next Recession
Sep 3, 2019
Summers and Stansbury Get It Half Right
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Webinars and Events
Africa’s Economic Transformation
DiscussionReducing Inequality, Building Sustainability
Hosted by Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Sep 3, 2019
A meeting hosted by INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) and Oxfam Strategic Dialogue at the WEF Africa meeting
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Article
Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?
Aug 30, 2019
An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality
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How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas
Aug 28, 2019
The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right
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Article
YSI Successfully Holds Fifth and Final Regional Convening in Asia
Aug 27, 2019
An update from INET’s Young Scholars Initiative