Archive
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Video
Why We Need a Multidisciplinary Economics
Aug 14, 2019
Economics needs to better incorporate other social sciences
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Article
Developing Asia Needs a New Economic Paradigm
Aug 13, 2019
Inadequate demand and climate change require a global green new deal
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Article
Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Aug 12, 2019
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
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YSI Event
YSI Asia Convening 2019
YSI
Regional ConveningAug 12–14, 2019
Hundreds of young scholars from all over Asia are coming together in Hanoi to discuss new economic thinking, present their research, and work with over 30 senior scholars. Join us there and become a part of YSI’s global community!
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Article
AI is Forcing Us to Rethink Economics
Aug 9, 2019
INET’s grantees and Commission on Global Economic Transformation are looking at artificial intelligence and society.
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Video
Change in the Economics Profession Can Come From the Outside
Aug 7, 2019
Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics
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Video
Why the Dismal Science Cares About Happiness
Jul 31, 2019
Economics is often thought of as emotion-less, but Daniel Benjamin argues for happiness as a vital indicator
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Article
A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Jul 30, 2019
Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot
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Video
Are We Ready to Give Up Autonomy to AI?
Jul 24, 2019
Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier. But is the cost losing some of our humanity?
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Article
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
Jul 22, 2019
The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
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Video
Puerto Rico’s Crisis Began Before Hurricane Maria
Jul 17, 2019
Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years
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Article
Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
Jul 16, 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesAmerican Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust
Jul 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.
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Article
Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects
Jul 11, 2019
Political risk—and what firms do about it
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesFirm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects
Jul 2019
We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.