Archive
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News
New York Times Features INET Derivatives Research
Jul 22, 2018
The New York Times features Michael Greenberger’s INET paper on how banks evade derivatives regulation
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YSI Event
YSI Latin America Convening
YSI
Regional ConveningJul 19–21, 2018
Young Scholars based in Latin America are invited to convene in Buenos Aires. The event serves to strengthen the Latin American network of new economic thinkers pursuing a new economic paradigm. Attendees will be able to enjoy several partner events during the same week.
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Video
When Meritocracy Breeds Greed
Jul 18, 2018
Journalist Steven Brill discusses how the U.S. lost sight of the common good
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Video
Why We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Jul 11, 2018
13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy
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Article
Reproducibility Crisis Reaches All Randomised Controlled Trials
Jul 9, 2018
The social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials – though they face more assumptions and biases than commonly thought.
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YSI Event
Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization
YSI
WorkshopJul 8–21, 2018
This small interdisciplinary workshop, is organized by the Azim Premji University, Institute for Policy Dialogue and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The goal of the workshop is to bring together graduate students studying development studies at a sufficiently advanced stage of their dissertation work to be able to discuss and receive feedback on their research.
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Article
Was Martin Luther King a socialist?
Jul 5, 2018
Was Martin Luther King a socialist? New book may surprise you.
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YSI Event
YSI @ Association for Heterodox Economics Conference
YSI
WorkshopJul 5–7, 2018
The YSI Economic Development Working Group will host a series of panels at the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, with the goal of developing an innovative research program on productive structures, institutions, distribution, and economic development.
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YSI Event
YSI Summer Academy: Finance, Law, and Economics
Challenges of Global Legal Diversity
YSI
WorkshopJul 5–7, 2018
This three-day summer academy and annual meeting of the Finance, Law, and Economics Working Group aims to bring together graduate students and young professionals pursuing careers in international economic law. By learning from prominent academics and practitioners in the field, participants will develop the fundamental skills to handle multi-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary issues, while broadening their networks. After successful attendance, YSI FLE will issue the corresponding certificates.
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Video
Don’t Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Jul 3, 2018
Matias Vernengo explains how economic crises reveal the nakedness of neoliberal policies
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News
Fast Company on INET Swaps Research
Jul 2, 2018
Fast Company covers Michael Greenberger’s paper for INET on how banks evade regulation of credit default swaps
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YSI Event
YSI @ STOREP Conference 2018
YSI
ConferenceJun 28–30, 2018
YSI is hosting sessions at the 2018 STOREP conference.
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Video
We Can—And Must—Reform Capitalism
Jun 27, 2018
Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better
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YSI Event
Whatever happened to Economics?
Joint workshop of Rethinking Economics and the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group @ STOREP
YSI
WorkshopJun 27–30, 2018
From 28-30 June the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy will be gathering in Genova to ask the question “Whatever has happened to political economy?”. Before the start of the conference, Rethinking Economics and the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group will host a workshop to discuss a related question: “Whatever happened to economics?”. Professor Geoffrey Hodgson will participate in our discussion.
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Article
Money and the Unflappable Economist
Jun 25, 2018
The Koch brothers scandal at George Mason University