Archive
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News
The Intercept Features INET Climate Research
Dec 5, 2018
The Intercept highlights INET research from Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm and Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai
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Article
Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Dec 5, 2018
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
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Collection
Is Green Growth Possible?
Economists debate whether catastrophic global warming can be stopped while maintaining current levels of economic growth. Enno Schröder, Servaas Storm, Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai find there is a tradeoff between growth and decarbonization, while Michael Grubb responds with more optimism.
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Article
A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Semieniuk et al
Dec 5, 2018
Hope for mitigating climate catastrophe may not be lost, but the scale of political change needed is no cause for optimism
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Article
Conditional Optimism: Economic Perspectives on Deep Decarbonization
Dec 5, 2018
A response to economists who doubt our capacity to decarbonize while maintaining robust growth
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Article
A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Schröder and Storm
Dec 5, 2018
Market tweaks and incentives won’t save us from climate catastrophe. Only radical policy change will.
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Article
The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy
Dec 5, 2018
The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action is needed
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesEconomic Growth and Carbon Emissions: The Road to ‘Hothouse Earth’ is Paved with Good Intentions
Dec 2018
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
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YSI Event
Economic Questions (Blog): Special Call for Articles
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YSI Event
Summer School on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modelling in Economics
YSI
WorkshopDec 3–7, 2018
The YSI Complexity Economics Working Group is delighted to invite all Young Scholars interested in Agent Based Modeling to apply for the Summer School on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modeling (Curitiba Summer School)
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Video
The Limits of the “Rational Economic Man”
Nov 30, 2018
Greg Mankiw says there should be a market for kidneys, but not for paying drug addicts to get sterilized.
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YSI Event
YSI @ Energy Innovation Academy
YSI
ConferenceNov 28–30, 2018
The FSR Energy Innovation Area and the Complexity Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the 1st Energy Innovation Academy.
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Working Paper
CommentaryWhy We Need a Second Bretton Woods Gathering
Nov 2018
We need a new system of rules for the digital 21st century that enhances global digital cooperation and welfare. Nothing less than a historic gathering of the world’s key decision makers will get us there.
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News
INET Chair Adair Turner in The Independent
Nov 26, 2018
The Independent profiles INET Chairman Adair Turner
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Webinars and Events
3rd Law Economics Policy Conference, 2018
ConferenceNov 26–28, 2018
Organized by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking, New York, the aim of the Law Economics Policy Conference series is to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.