Government & Politics
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Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy
Jan 9, 2017
As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz
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America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy
Jan 6, 2017
A concentration of wealth and power that created a twin crisis of representation — in politics, and in expertise — set the stage for Donald Trump’s election victory, and has put America’s founding principles at risk
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Race May be Pseudo-Science, But Economists Ignore it at their Peril
Jan 6, 2017
Presented by Professor Dan O’Flaherty at the Institute’s conference on the economics of race in Detroit on 11 November, 2016
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INET's Turner Warns Against 'Fantasy' of Stimulating Economies Through Financial Deregulation
Jan 5, 2017
There is no good case for major deregulation of the US financial sector, warns INET Board Chairman Adair Turner, and any backsliding by a Trump administration on banks’ capital requirements instituted globally after 2008 will be very dangerous
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Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State
Jan 5, 2017
Evidence thus far questions the assumption that robotics are eliminating jobs. INET Senior Vice President for Programs Rick McGahey says the UBI debate should focus on the long-term weakening of labor’s bargaining power
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A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions
Jan 3, 2017
Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path
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A Moral Challenge to Economists
Jan 1, 2017
Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11
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INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously
Dec 29, 2016
Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric
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Stiglitz: Bad News Awaits America's Workers
Dec 28, 2016
Campaign promises aside, the policies favored by President-elect Donal Trump are likely to bring more pain than gain to working-class Americans
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Garza Parsing America’s Backlash
Dec 27, 2016
Black Lives Matter movement co-founder Alicia Garza, addressing the Institute’s Detroit conference on the economics of race, placed the turmoil created by the 2016 election in the context of a backlash against the gains made by social movements challenging racial and social injustice. She argued that those movements now need, more than ever, “to show up for one another” at a local level to protect those gains
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Reality Check: What Economists Talk About When They Talk About the Chinese Economy
Dec 23, 2016
Beneath the heated political rhetoric over U.S.-China economic ties lies an increasingly complex reality
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If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous
Dec 22, 2016
Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it
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Chanos: Is a big change underway in global capitalism?
Dec 21, 2016
Milwaukee-born short-seller Jim Chanos, founder and managing partner of New York-based Kynikos Associates, teaches University of Wisconsin and Yale business students about corporate fraud. During his life and career, he has witnessed seismic shifts in economic thinking and the relationship between labor and capital. Chanos shares his thoughts on the world emerging from the election of Donald Trump and the tumultuous political events of 2016.
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Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty
Dec 19, 2016
In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world
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Many Politicians Voting for the TARP Bailout Protected Their Own Wealth
Dec 16, 2016
Amid heightened focus on conflicts of interests, new research shows how legislators’ votes on the 2008 bank bailout tracked with the exposure to peril of their personal stock portfolios