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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.
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Video
How Economics Became a Cult
Sep 26, 2018
Steve Keen: “What an education in economics does is make you into a zealot
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Article
Joseph Stiglitz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Social and Economic Justice
Sep 25, 2018
A Nobel Prize-winning economist and the second-most-famous democratic socialist in America sit down together
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YSI Working Group News
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis as History - YSI Webinar series
YSI
Sep 25, 2018
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. …This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.” This YSI Webinar and Reading Group aims to contribute to the historicization of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its repercussions.
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Article
The Rise of the Radical Right in Scandinavia
Sep 21, 2018
After Sweden’s elections, a look at how immigration and economics explain a political puzzle