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Article
The Black Woman Economist Who Pioneered a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Feb 22, 2019
Decades before it caught on with other economists, Sadie Alexander was the first economist to recommend a government jobs guarantee in the US
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YSI Event
YSI North America Convening
YSI
Regional ConveningFeb 22–24, 2019
On February 22-24, 2019, the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) will host its North America Convening in Los Angeles.
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Webinars and Events
2019 Annual ASEER (GSÖBW) Conference
ConferenceCrossing Borders, Embracing Pluralism: Perspectives on Teaching Socio-Economics and Pluralism in Economics
Feb 21–22, 2019
What is the relationship between pluralist economics and interdisciplinary socio-economics? How does pluralist academic teaching need to be structured in economics or business administration in order to be successful? What should interdisciplinary socio-economic study programs look like, and how should teacher training in the field be designed? What kinds of new study materials, textbooks, and teaching methods are required?
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Article
Don't “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Feb 20, 2019
We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights
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Article
Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Feb 20, 2019
Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy
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Video
Financial Regulation Shouldn’t Be Hard—Here’s What We Need to Make It Work
Feb 20, 2019
We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?
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Article
Science and Subterfuge in Economics
Feb 17, 2019
John Kenneth Galbraith noted in 1973 that establishment economics had become the “invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public.” If anything, economists’ embrace of that role has grown stronger since then.
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Article
How Imperfect Knowledge Shapes Financial Markets
Feb 15, 2019
Asset markets are indispensable in harnessing society’s diverse views and insights about future business performance. But those views are shaped as much by emotion and crowd mentality as by rational expectations.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesNew Evidence on the Portfolio Balance Approach to Currency Returns
Feb 2019
Asset markets are indispensable in harnessing society’s diverse views and insights about future business performance. But those views are shaped as much by emotion and crowd mentality as by rational expectations.
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Research Program News
Global Commission Discusses Tech + the Future of Work in San Francisco
Feb 14, 2019
The latest meeting of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation addressed the impact of technological change on jobs and society—and how best to harness the power of tech
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Article
Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Feb 14, 2019
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Contributions of Socioeconomic and Opioid Supply Factors to Geographic Variation in U.S. Drug Mortality Rates
Feb 2019
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths
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News
CityLab Features INET Research on Opioid Crisis
Feb 14, 2019
Atlantic CityLab features Shannon Monnat’s research on the opioid crisis