Government & Politics
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Political Economy of Capitalism
YSI
WorkshopAug 27–29, 2018
The Economics of Innovation Working group and the Economic History Working Group together with the Département d’histoire, économie et société at the University of Geneva, are launching the event Political Economy of Capitalism to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27-28-29 August 2018.
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Working Paper Series
Social Stability and Resource Allocation within Business Groups
Aug 2018
Using datasets on transactions within business groups and social sentiment in China, I show that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) use internal funds to address social unrest, complying with the government’s political goals.
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Rethinking Social Progress in the 21st Century
Aug 14, 2018
A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers
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Macroeconomics and the Italian Vote
Aug 6, 2018
To understand the rise of the League and 5 Star Movement, look at economic indicators
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The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism
Aug 3, 2018
How corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends
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Working Paper Series
The Subversion of Shareholder Democracy and the Rise of Hedge-Fund Activism
Aug 2018
This paper explains how hedge-fund activists are exerting power over corporate resourceallocation far in excess of the actual voting power of their shareholdings.
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Austerity Caused Brexit
Aug 2, 2018
Places hit hardest by austerity cuts were more likely to vote for UKIP and Leave
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Glasnost and Perestroika in Economics
Jul 25, 2018
James Galbraith says academic economics is in need of radical reform
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America’s White Collar Middle Class Takes a Terrifying Slide Down the Mobility Ladder
Jul 24, 2018
Alissa Quart’s new book chronicles the pain of a disgruntled class that could change the country’s political landscape.
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Ending the Wild West of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Jul 23, 2018
Clear rules and sound principles for debt restructuring would level the playing field between developing countries and creditors
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Technology, Globalization and the Environment: Latin American Development in the XXI Century
ECLAC Summer School on the Latin American Economies
YSI
WorkshopJul 23–24, 2018
The Latin America Working Group and the Keynesian Economic Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) are hosting the workshop “Technology, Globalization and the Environment: Latin American Development in the XXI Century” to be held at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile on the 23-24 July 2018.
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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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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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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 @ STOREP Conference 2018
YSI
ConferenceJun 28–30, 2018
YSI is hosting sessions at the 2018 STOREP conference.