Archive
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Video
New Economic Thinking Needs Old Ideas
Oct 17, 2018
Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking
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YSI Event
Economics and the Development of Africa
YSI Workshop @ 13th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network
YSI
WorkshopOct 13, 2018
The YSI Africa Working Group is convening in Bologna, Italy in conjunction with the 13th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network. Our meeting in Bologna follows what promises to be a successful convention in August 2018 at the YSI Africa Convening in Harare, Zimbabwe. The YSI Africa Working Group is committed to continuing important conversations about how economic history can contribute to the study of development of Africa. We are particularly interested in thinking about the types of new approaches to the study of economics and economic history.
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Article
Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
Oct 10, 2018
Reactions to the size of the proposed plan rely on discredited assumptions and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of economic growth—and austerity
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Video
Can AI Free Humans from ‘Routine’ Work?
Oct 10, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace routine jobs, says Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. But done right, that process could allow us to “pursue dreams, spend time with our loved ones and find out why we exist as humans”
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News
James Heckman in The Economist
Oct 6, 2018
Nobel laureate James Heckman, Sidharth Moktan and their INET-funded research on economics journals is featured in The Economist.
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YSI Event
Endogenous Preferences and the Consequences of Economic Incentives
Workshop by the YSI Behavior and Society Group
YSI
WorkshopOct 5–7, 2018
Young scholars in the fields of behavioral and experimental economics, philosophy, and related disciplines will be given the opportunity to present their work at a workshop in New York. Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute), Shaun Hargreaves Heap (King’s College London) and Mario Rizzo (New York University) will also present their work and give feedback to the young scholars.
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Article
Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction
Oct 4, 2018
Economists who dismiss inequality as a problem secondary to poverty miss the point: Inequality is part of what drives poverty
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Video
The End of American Exceptionalism
Oct 3, 2018
“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesPublishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
Oct 2018
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments.
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Article
The Tyranny of the Top Five Journals
Oct 2, 2018
Getting published in a top five economics journal is a near-requirement for tenure. But it’s a poor measure of research quality within a system that punishes creativity.
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News
Noam Chomsky Cites Thomas Ferguson's Paper
Oct 2, 2018
In a piece for The Intercept, Noam Chomsky cites Tom Ferguson’s paper on the influence of money in US congressional elections.
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News
James Heckman in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 1, 2018
Nobel laureate James Heckman, Sidharth Moktan and their INET-funded research on economics journals is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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News
Rob Johnson on Background Briefing
Oct 1, 2018
INET President Rob Johnson appears on Background Briefing with Ian Masters to discuss the tenth anniversary of the bailout
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Article
Why Dodd-Frank Is a Shell Game for Banks
Sep 27, 2018
Ten years after the crisis, financial regulation leaves taxpayers holding the bag for banks’ safety net.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesDouble Whammy: Implicit Subsidies and the Great Financial Crisis
Sep 2018
This paper concerns itself with the joint effect of implicit subsidies that are built into the US housing-finance system and financial safety net.