Archive
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Video
How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
Jul 10, 2019
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class
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Article
The Myth of Expansionary Austerity
Jul 8, 2019
It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesExpansionary Austerity and Reverse Causality: A Critique of the Conventional Approach
Jul 2019
It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.
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Article
Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Jul 2, 2019
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
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Article
After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.
Jul 1, 2019
The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick
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Article
How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy
Jun 27, 2019
With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world
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Article
State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali
Jun 26, 2019
Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development
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Video
A Brief History of Doom
Jun 26, 2019
Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesState Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali
Jun 2019
Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development
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YSI Event
INET/YSI Pre-conference @ STOREP 2019
YSI
WorkshopJun 25–27, 2019
The Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) announce a day and a half of lectures, workshops, and debates held on the 26th and 27th of June, just before the annual STOREP conference, in Siena, Italy.
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Article
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
Jun 24, 2019
As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.
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Article
Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
Jun 24, 2019
By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution
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Conference Session
Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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Conference Session
Outlook Session: How much debt is too much?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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Conference Session
Expectations and Credit Cycles: What role for over-optimism of borrowers and lenders?
Jun 21, 2019 |