History
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Worrying About the Deficit is So 17th Century
Jun 6, 2018
In “celebration” of the late Pete Peterson’s 92nd birthday (see guest list), an excerpt from 19th Century historian Lord Macaulay’s History of England, on hundreds of years of unwarranted panic about government debt.
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Teaching Economics the Adam Smith Way
Jun 6, 2018
The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students
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Working Paper Series
Labor Institutions and Development Under Globalization
Jun 2018
Labor market regulation is a controversial area of public policy in both developed and developing countries.
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Institutions and Communities in the History of Economic Thought
YSI Workshop @ ESHET 2018
YSI
WorkshopJun 6, 2018
The Institute of New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative (INET YSI) Working Group on the History of Economic Thought is organizing a YSI Workshop on Institutions and Communities in the History of Economic Thought on 6 June in Madrid, Spain, ahead of the Annual ESHET Conference
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YSI Europe Convening
YSI
Regional ConveningMay 31–Jun 3, 2018
As in previous years, young scholars will come together in Trento during the annual Festival dell’Economia. This gathering will serve as the YSI Europe Convening for 2018. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their work with YSI members from across Europe, while also partaking in the Festival dell’Economia.
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Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
May 30, 2018
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
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Presentation
Citation Counts: Consequences on the Development of Economics
May 2018
A presentation from the panel “Research Evaluation in Economic Theory and Policy Making” at the 2018 G20 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin
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Conference paper
Performance-Based Incentives, Research Evaluation Systems and the Trickle-Down of Bad Science
May 2018
Alberto Baccini’s presentation for INET’s panel on research evaluation at the G20 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, May 2018.
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INET Memo to G20: The Trouble with Economic Research Evaluation
May 28, 2018
In a memo for the G20, INET calls for changes to the evaluation of economic research to ensure that economic theory—and policy—is more rigorous, innovative, and in service to society.
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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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Working Paper Series
The 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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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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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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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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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.