Education
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Curriculum Reform & Rethinking Economics
Sep 17, 2015
Marc Lavoie discusses the methodological foundations of heterodox economics, and offers a very different model of money and credit, firms and pricing, consumer theory, effective demand and employment and growth theories.
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Intersections of Psychology and Economics
Sep 11, 2015
Tania Singer on the key importance of understanding preferences and behavioral change.
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Latest Institute Grants Announced
Jul 17, 2015
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has awarded $2 million in grants to fund 21 different projects as part of the latest round of its research grant program.
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The Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
Jun 18, 2015
Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens.
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Thoughts On Skidelsky's Rant Against The Current Economics Curriculum
Jun 9, 2015
The extremely wise Robert Skidelsky has an excellent rant against Anglo-Saxon economics departments
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Conference paper
Change of Course: a Journalist’s Perspective
Apr 2015
I first came across economics students’ campaigns to revolutionise their education in that bastion of radical thought: the newsroom of the Financial Times.
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Conference paper
From Terrible to Terrific Undergraduate Economics Curricula
Apr 2015
Among the areas left largely unscathed by the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent never-‐ending recession, the teaching of economics ranks high.
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Conference paper
What's Wrong With Economics?
Apr 2015
Hubris might well head the list
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Teaching Economics
Apr 10, 2015 | 07:00—08:30
This panel covers the teaching of economics at the university level.
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Economics Curriculum for Activists
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:00—07:30
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Conference paper
Reviving Debate In Economics: Motivations and Methods of the International Student Movement
Apr 2015
In the past three years, students around the world have turned the heat of scrutiny onto our economics departments. Our call is strikingly uniform across our diverse cultures and languages: we want critical debate back in the economics curriculum.
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How Did Bad Economics Crowd Out Good Economics? Evidence from Citation Analysis
Apr 10, 2015 | 06:45—08:15
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Liberté, Égalité, Fragilité
PlenaryApr 8–11, 2015
The Institute for New Economic Thinking held its sixth Annual Conference from April 8 to April 11, 2015, in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
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Why Don't Economists Go to Hollywood Parties?
Feb 15, 2015
Do economists live in a world of their own?
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Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
Dec 27, 2014
Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.