Archive
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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
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Video
The Rise of Fake News
Nov 2, 2018
Right-wing news sources have stopped playing by the rules of journalism
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Article
Big Money—Not Political Tribalism—Drives US Elections
Oct 31, 2018
Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
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News
The Intercept: Donald Trump Exploited Long-Term Economic Distress to Fuel His Election Victory, Study Finds
Oct 31, 2018
The Intercept covers a new INET paper from our Research Director Tom Ferguson and his co-authors.
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Article
Economic Distress Did Drive Trump’s Win
Oct 31, 2018
Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Economic and Social Roots of Populist Rebellion: Support for Donald Trump in 2016
Oct 2018
This paper critically analyzes voting patterns in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Video
The Rise of China and the Future of Work
Oct 29, 2018
The Rise of China and the Future of WorkArtificial intelligence could replace routine jobs but allow us to “pursue dreams”
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YSI Event
YSI @ FMM Conference: 10 Years after the Crash
YSI
ConferenceOct 25–27, 2018
What did societies and politicians learn from the crash? What have been theoretical achievements in orthodox and heterodox economic thinking since then? Where do we go from here?