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The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is supporting the conference “Hello, Can You Hear Me? Added Value and Inequalities in a Global Market,” that will be held at La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), on September 20th and 21st. The event is promoted by CEST and funded by the Young Scholars Initiative – INET and by the “Luigi Einaudi” Research Centre.

Trump’s surprise win areas looked like a drug overdose map

What would global trade without the U.S. at the helm look like? INET Global Commissioner Danny Quah investigates.

A financial industry safety net enriches bankers and their shareholders — at our expense

George Soros and Rob Johnson Discuss the Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Ten years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the Wall Street casino is running amok

INET Oxford’s Brian Nolan writes on his new book for VoxEU

In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks

Distracted by the perceived threat of a Chinese savings glut, mainstream macroeconomists missed the writing on the wall of the 2008 crisis

INET Chairman Adair Turner reflects on the 2008 financial crisis on Bloomberg TV

Been following Larry Summers and Joe Stiglitz’s debate over secular stagnation? Check out their INET work on the topic here and decide for yourself who makes the better case.

Both before 2008 and today, there’s a disturbing tendency in Washington to not take mortgage fraud seriously

Before 2008, mainstream economics thought a global economic crisis on the scale of the Great Depression was impossible. Then Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. A decade later, INET looks back at the causes of the global financial crisis, and what policymakers—and economists—must change to prevent another one.

Despite disparate policy beliefs, MMT and orthodox macro rely on many of the same theoretical foundations