Archive
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Article
Breaking the Stranglehold of the Orthodoxy in Economics
May 28, 2018
Introducing INET’s body of work on dysfunctions in research evaluation, Rob Johnson shows how breaking academic conformity is vital for the economics profession—and the economy itself.
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Collection
The Crisis of Conformity in Economics
Academia—and economics in particular—has increasingly placed emphasis on measures of research “quality” that do more to narrow intellectual exploration than they do to produce good scholarship. With a mandate of reforming the economics profession, INET has produced a series of research on the issues of evaluation and citations, academic conformity, and exactly what makes “good” economics.
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Video
How Government Drives Innovation
May 25, 2018
Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change
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Video
What Money Can't Buy
May 23, 2018
What Money Can’t Buy is a six part series exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Focus of Academic Economics: Before and After the Crisis
May 2018
Has the global financial crisis of 2007 had a visible impact on the economics profession?
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News
The New Statesman: Michael Sandel on Populism and Democracy
May 21, 2018
Michael Sandel takes What Money Can’t Buy’s themes of markets and morals and applies them to an analysis of the rise of populism in the West.
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Article
Argentina’s Unseen Fragility
May 18, 2018
With growth fueled by an increase in debt, Argentina is facing an uncertain economic future, despite investors’ generally rosy view. The government of Mauricio Macri has options to address the country’s macroeconomic risks, but none of them will be free of tough choices.
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Article
To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
May 16, 2018
200 years after Marx’s birth, many elites have taken unabashed pride in capitalism, a term that originally had negative connotations. To make our economy more just, we must reclaim Marx’s understanding of capitalism’s contradictions.
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Working Paper
Conference paperCapitalism in the age of robots: work, income and wealth in the 21st-century
May 2018
Adair Turner, Chair of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Lecture at School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC April 10th 2018
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News
In These Times: A Public Option in the Pharma Industry
May 11, 2018
In These Times cites INET research in calling for putting drug companies under public control.
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Article
The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism
May 10, 2018
200 years after Marx’s birth, a look at how two economists sought to reconcile his idea of common ownership with market mechanisms
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YSI Event
11. The history of African Economic Thought from Ptah-Hotep to Achille Mbembe
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Article
Why We Need a Global Public Economics
May 7, 2018
Global public goods, from health to peace to security, crisscross national and social boundaries. We need a new economic theory to understand their pivotal role in the global economy.
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Article
How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
May 2, 2018
It’s time to connect political violence with economic violence.
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YSI Working Group News
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: YSI webinar series on 'What Money Can't Buy' with Michael Sandel
YSI
May 1, 2018
To mark the release of INET’s “What Money Can’t Buy” with professor Michael Sandel, the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group and and Finance, Law and Economics Working Group invite young scholars working on issues related to the core issues in Michael Sandel’s lectures to present their work in a series of webinars. Professor Sandel will join the webinars to answer questions about the topics raised in his book, the video lectures and to give comment on the presentations.