Archive
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YSI Event
Inclusive or Exclusive Global Development?
Scrutinizing Financial Inclusion
YSI
WorkshopNov 21, 2018
Microfinance and then financial inclusion have become buzzwords in international development. Such initiatives have mobilised and generated large amounts of development funding, despite substantial amount of critique. Such critiques call for a more impartial assessment of the effectiveness of financial inclusion on the grounds that funds for microfinance, they argue, displaced development spendings on healthcare, education or infrastructure. In addition, the focus on expansion of financial markets to ‘bank’ and financially ‘include’ the poor may divert attention from more comprehensive and effective poverty reduction strategies. Critiques of this ‘way of doing development’ are often sidelined and labelled as ‘extreme’, ‘sloppy’ or ideology-driven rather than evidence-based. We believe that there is a need for contemporary development scholars from all disciplines to engage in those debates. This half-day workshop would bring in such scholars to discuss what we have learned from a decade of research on the microfinance, and how financial inclusion and the emergence of fintech may offer new opportunities - as well as risks - in for inclusive global development.
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Article
The Top Journals Club in Economics
Nov 20, 2018
Prejudice and collusion, not simply research quality, drive journal citations
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesCitation Patterns in Economics and Beyond
Nov 2018
Assessing the Peculiarities of Economics from Two Scientometric Perspectives
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesCitation Patterns in Economics and Beyond
Nov 2018
In this paper we comparatively explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis.
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News
Bill Lazonick Research in New York Times
Nov 19, 2018
William Lazonick’s INET research is featured in his New York Times op-ed
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Video
A Market for Votes?
Nov 16, 2018
Michael Sandel and Joe Stiglitz discuss why selling votes is bad for democracy, and how individual self-interest doesn’t always serve the public good
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Article
When the Middle Class Lost Its Wealth
Nov 15, 2018
Until 2008, rising home values gave the middle class a cushion amid growing income inequality. But following the financial crisis, that wealth has failed to return.
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Article
Apple’s “Capital Return Program”: Where Are the Patient Capitalists?
Nov 13, 2018
Instead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks
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Article
U.N. Secretary-General Meets with INET Global Commissioners
Nov 12, 2018
António Guterres and CGET Commissioners discuss cooperating on inequality, climate change, multilateralism, and more
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Video
Money Matters
Nov 7, 2018
Neoclassical economics dismisses the role of money and the state in the economy. Keynes scholar Robert Skidlesky says it’s time for a re-evaluation.
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News
Jacobin Q&A with Tom Ferguson
Nov 6, 2018
Jacobin Magazine’s Q&A with Tom Ferguson about his new INET paper.
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News
Real News Network Features INET Paper on 2016 Election
Nov 6, 2018
Real News Network interviews INET Research Director Tom Ferguson about his new paper on money and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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News
Thomas Ferguson on Background Briefing
Nov 4, 2018
INET Research Director Tom Ferugson talks about Donald Trump and racial resentment with Ian Masters’s Background Briefing
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YSI Event
LALICS-YSI INET Academy 2018
YSI
WorkshopNov 3–9, 2018
Our focus is on teaching and discussing theoretical and empirical methods related to the innovation processes in Latin America and the Caribbean and how these are linked to the economic development of the region. The Academy offers the opportunity to connect students to a research community integrated by high profile researchers.
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Article
Cheap Talk on Race and Xenophobia Keeps Americans from Confronting Economic and Political Peril
Nov 2, 2018
Adolph Reed, who researches race and politics, warns that “identitarian” politics can conceal the structural inequities of capitalism