Archive
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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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Video
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
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The Sacrificial Rites of Capitalism We Don’t Talk About
Aug 26, 2019
Author Supritha Rajan argues that self-interested competition may be the official line, but it’s far from the whole story
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YSI Event
UNCTAD Summer School 2019
The Crisis of Multilateralism - is a Global Green New Deal the Solution?
YSI
ConferenceAug 26–30, 2019
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) are pleased to announce the upcoming UNCTAD Summer School 2019.
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Video
How Can We Track Bank Risk?
Aug 21, 2019
Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau
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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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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?