Inequality & Distribution
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The Economic Case for Single Payer Health Care in the US
Jul 8, 2017
Greater efficiency, lower costs, and universal coverage make it the sustainable option, say some top economists
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Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
Jun 22, 2017
A new model probes why the US leads the world in jailing and imprisoning people, and what it will take to reverse course
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Globalization and the Developing World
YSI Latin America Convening 2017
YSI
ConferenceJun 17–21, 2017
The Young Scholars Initiative is hosting its regional convening for Latin America in Mexico City from 17-21 June.
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Developing Equality
A discussion with Craig
YSI
DiscussionJun 15–16, 2017
This seminar is happening at INET Oxford
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YSI Inequality Workshop
Hosted at London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute.
YSI
WorkshopJun 12–14, 2017
A workshop hosted by the YSI Inequality Working Group (IWG) will take place from 12-13 June at the London School of Economics in collaboration with the International Inequalities Institute (III).
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CFP - The Dimensions of Poverty Conference
Deadline: 31 January 2017
YSI
WorkshopJun 7–9, 2017
YSI Working Groups are cooperating with Dimensions of Poverty conference
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Trento Festival of Economics
YSI Europe Convening 2017
YSI
WorkshopJun 1–4, 2017
The Young Scholars Initiative and its working groups will be hosting meetings and discussions in and around the 2017 Trento Festival of Economics.
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The New Normal
May 19, 2017
Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
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Microfinance & Austerity: No Womens' Empowerment without Community Involvement
May 17, 2017
How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women. Professor Girón discusses why microfinance cannot replace development banks.
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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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Inequality, Globalization, and Macroeconomics
ConferenceUSC Dornsife INET presents a conference on inequality, globalization, and macroeconomics
Apr 28–29, 2017
April 28-29, 2017, USC Dornsife INET is hosting a conference on inequality, globalization, and macroeconomics at the University of Southern California. The goal of this conference is to bring together leading researchers to discuss and present new approaches and new results on the relationships between inequality and macroeconomics and between inequality and globalization. Please direct any questions or comments to [email protected].
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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”.
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The Moral Burden on Economists
Apr 13, 2017
In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.
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oxford
YSI
DiscussionApr 13–15, 2017
INET