Archive
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News
Boing Boing on Facebook Privacy Research
Apr 18, 2019
Boing Boing covers Dina Srinivasan’s research on Facebook, privacy, and monopoly power
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Article
Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Apr 17, 2019
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
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Video
Why We Must Resist Conventional Economic Wisdom
Apr 17, 2019
Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations
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Webinars and Events
INET Panel @ Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019
ConferenceApr 15, 2019
Excellence and Conformity in Economics: how to set the incentives straight
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News
INET Leadership Meets with Portugal’s Finance Minister and Eurogroup President
Apr 12, 2019
Group discussed pressing issues in the eurozone and the need for new economic thinking
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Article
How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
Apr 10, 2019
Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone
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Video
Why Corporate-Led Globalization is Unsustainable
Apr 10, 2019
Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesLost in Deflation
Apr 2019
Why Italy’s woes are a warning to the whole Eurozone
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Video
When Innovation Meets Authoritarianism
Apr 3, 2019
China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian stat
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Article
A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
Apr 2, 2019
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.
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YSI Event
Reimagining the Eurozone
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Article
INET to G20: Bank Regulation Can't Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
Mar 28, 2019
At a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees
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Video
Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Mar 27, 2019
Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare
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Article
Can Markets Corrode Relationships?
Mar 25, 2019
Kristen Ghodsee discusses her research on how love and relationships function under socialism and capitalism, and what economists miss about the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe
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News
INET Event in Kerala Featured in Times of India
Mar 25, 2019
The Times of India features INET’s event, “Rebuilding Kerala Economy: Time for a Paradigm Shift?”