History
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Taking the Con Out of Economics? The Limits of Negative Darwinism
Oct 22, 2017 | 12:00
What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data?
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Nobel Laureates to Co-Chair Independent Commission on Global Economy
Oct 22, 2017
Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence and a global team of leading thinkers are calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Conference paper
A Fiscal Union. Is it likely? Would it be enough?
Oct 2017
The current crisis is the culmination of a process of integration that has profoundly changed the structure of each member state, their inter-relations and their power relations. One of its side effects was the rediscovery of the terms ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ to analyse the economic situations of the European countries.
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Conference paper
Macroeconomic stabilization, monetary-fiscal interactions, and Europe’s monetary union
Oct 2017
The euro area has been experiencing a prolonged period of weak economic activity and very low inflation.
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Conference paper
How a Flawed Structure is Hurting the Eurozone—Economically and Politically
Oct 2017
The wind appears to be back in the sails of the Eurozone economy ….
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Conference paper
Power or Economic Law?
Oct 2017
Some fresh reflections on ECB policy
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The Future of the Eurozone
Oct 21, 2017 | 12:30
Can a monetary union without true banking and fiscal union be saved? What remains of the hopes that animated the Treaty of Rome?
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INET and Economics in Cambridge
Oct 21, 2017 | 06:35—07:20
A discussion of new economic thinking over the years at Cambridge, and its recent contributions via the Cambridge-INET Institute
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Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Oct 21, 2017 |
Adam Smith and his contemporaries were key figures of the Scottish enlightenment. How much of his real thought survives in modern economics, and has something important been lost?
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Conference paper
On Adam Smith
Oct 2017
Given that this is a panel on that quintessential Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, I can think of no better way to begin my remarks than to invoke that most enlightened of modern economists, Kenneth Boulding, who in 1971 penned the delightful essay, “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?”
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Conference paper
“Come forth into the light of things”: William Wordsworth’s Human Challenge to Economic Thinking
Oct 2017
When priests and princes lost their monopoly over the big questions of human existence over the course of the Enlightenment, philosophers, poets, and ordinary people struggled to find out the answers on their own.
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Conference paper
Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, and ‘realistic’ Philosophy
Oct 2017
Adam Smith’s modern fame as the founding father of economics has, until relatively recently, obscured the fact that he saw himself as a moral philosopher.
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Conference paper
Reawakening: From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time
Oct 2017
The road towards a decent society; lessons from classical political economy
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INET President: Rebuilding A Moral Economics
Oct 21, 2017 | 11:15
Rob Johnson kicks off INET’s “Reawakening” conference with his take on how economists can win back the trust of a world that has rejected experts
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Scottish First Minister Opens #INET2017
Oct 21, 2017 | 11:00
Nicola Sturgeon covers a range of topics including how economists’ work relates to policymaking, the financial crisis and the dangers of groupthink, how dissatisfaction with stagnating wages and rising inequality played into political shocks like Brexit, the legacy of Adam Smith, why new economic thinking is so important, and what her government is doing to foster and apply it.