Archive
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Collection
Economics' Race Problem: A Video Playlist
In this series, scholars and activists challenge economic orthodoxy by showing how race functions as an arbiter of access to power, privilege, and wealth.
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News
Global Commission Discusses Tech + the Future of Work in San Francisco
Feb 13, 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
The Bogus Paper that Gutted Workers’ Rights
Feb 6, 2019
For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesLabor Laws and Manufacturing Performance in India: How Priors Trump Evidence and Progress Gets Stalled
Feb 2019
For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.
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Video
Is Free Money the Future of the Safety Net?
Feb 6, 2019
Universal Basic Income is gaining in popularity, among socialists and libertarians alike. But when it comes to implementation, the devil is in the details.
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News
Adair Turner in the New York Times
Feb 4, 2019
The New York Times quotes INET Senior Fellow Adair Turner on the bifurcated workforce
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Article
Millionaire-Driven Education Reform Has Failed. Here’s What Works.
Jan 31, 2019
Journalist Andrea Gabor’s new book heralds a “quiet revolution” in education you didn’t know was happening
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Video
The Best Way to Measure Inequality
Jan 30, 2019
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
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Article
The Natural Rate of Interest Is Anything But
Jan 28, 2019
Central bankers pursue a “neutral” rate that doesn’t exist
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesEstimates of the Natural Rate of Interest and the Stance of Monetary Policies: A Critical Assessment
Jan 2019
Starting with the literature on the estimates of the natural rate of interest, this paper critically analyzes the modern practice of identifying the benchmark rate of monetary policy with an equilibrium or neutral interest rate reflecting “fundamental forces” unaffected by monetary factors.
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Video
A Growth Slowdown is Coming
Jan 23, 2019
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital.
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News
Adair Turner on Bloomberg TV
Jan 22, 2019
INET’s Adair Turner talks about the slowdown in the Chinese economy on Bloomberg TV
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Research Program
Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Video
John Bogle: How Wall Street Lost Sight of Ordinary Americans
Jan 17, 2019
From tax loopholes to high-risk speculation, Vanguard’s founder reflects on the state of Wall Street and the change needed to make finance work for ordinary people.
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Video
Does Inflation Targeting Make the Poor Poorer?
Jan 16, 2019
When central banks set inflation targets, they effectively redistribute income from wage earners to bondholders