Microeconomics

The Implications of Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative for China and the World Economy

The 2008 financial crisis was a shock to faith in entirely free financial markets. But the neoliberal assumptions underlying the previously dominant “Washington Consensus” continue to inform much Western commentary on China’s economy.

As globalization proceeds rapidly, manufacturing industry in most of developed countries declined steadily. 

The Death of the Seventy-year American Empire  

As dual economies transform countries, how does world politics adjust?

Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters 

This paper discusses what we have learned about the debt build-up in advanced societies over the past century. It shows that the extraordinary growth of aggregate debt in the past century was driven by the private sector.

A better set of approaches for the 21st century.

Is Comparative Advantage the Ideology of the Comparatively Advantaged? 

The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data? 

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.

The Festival for New Economic Thinking is a collaborative initiative of several organizations, and aims to bring together those who seek to improve how economics is taught, studied and practiced. 

“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power