History
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The New Normal
May 19, 2017
Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
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Working Paper Series
The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
May 2017
The U.S. economy is widely diagnosed with two ‘diseases’: a secular stagnation of potential U.S. growth, and rising income and job polarization. The two diseases have a common root inthe demand shortfall, originating from the ‘unbalanced’ growth between technologically ‘dynamic’ and ‘stagnant’ sectors.
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Methods in the History of Economic Thought
YSI
WorkshopMay 17, 2017
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 Methods in the History of Economic Thought on 17 May in Antwerp, Belgium, ahead of the Annual ESHET Conference.
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Institutions and Communities in the History of Economic Thought
YSI Workshop @ ESHET 2018
YSI
WorkshopMay 17, 2017–Jun 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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It’s Not Just Profit Wrecking American Healthcare
May 15, 2017
A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it
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Working Paper Series
The Political Economy of Mass Incarceration: An Analytical Model
May 2017
This paper presents a model of mass incarceration in the United States, which has the largest proportion of its population imprisoned among advanced countries.
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Call for Papers - “Institutional Responses to Financial Crises 1870 to 2017”
YSI Economic History Workshop
YSI
WorkshopMay 12–13, 2017
The Economic History Working Group and the Financial Stability Working Group are organizing a two day seminar on May, 12th-13th in New York. The theme for the will be “Institutional responses to financial crises 1870 to 2017”.
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The New Economic History of India
ConferenceMay 11–12, 2017
The History Project will hold its fifth conference on May 11-12, 2017 at the University of Cambridge. The conference will be concerned with the economic history of India, particularly in relation to exchanges across frontiers, the history of the law, and the history of economic thought.
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Europe Will Find A Way Forward with the Euro
May 10, 2017
A breakup of the Euro will be too difficult and costly for member countries.
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India's Economic Challenges
May 9, 2017 | 04:00—05:30
A discussion with Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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The Push and Pull of Inequality and Identity
May 3, 2017
Professor Dutt discusses how group identity is key to addressing inequality and how inequality can disrupt group identity.
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Political Conflict and Economic Pluralism in Brazil
May 2, 2017
The reaction to repressive political conditions that prevailed in Brazil during the 1970s helped to produce a commitment to diversity and tolerance among Brazilian economists.
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Rethinking Economics and Economic History in Zimbabwe: Theory and Practice
YSI
WorkshopApr 22, 2017
Workshop of the YSI Africa Working Group
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America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
Apr 20, 2017
A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds
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PhD Workshop at the Fourth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference
YSI
WorkshopApr 19–21, 2017
The YSI Keynesian Economics Working Group is co-hosting a PhD seminar at the Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference entitled “Economics at the Edge”.