The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
By Steven Fazzari, In the past week, it has quickly become clear that the social distancing required to mitigate the spr
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YSI Event – Theoretical Foundations of Economic Development: a Classical Reappraisal
The year 2020 involves by coincidence a set of celebrations about great critically oriented economists: 60 years of Sr
What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?
Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics at the New School, explores alternatives to economic orthodoxies, and the findi
Economics for People with Ha-Joon Chang
In the new series “Economics For People” from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Ha-Joon Chang explains k
Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom
By Stefano Di Bucchianico. (originally posted here) Stagnation and inequality have been, for a long time, topics res
How and How Not to do Economics, with Robert Skidelsky
New INET lecture series. Expanding an understanding of economics beyond mathematical models, Robert Skidelsky cove
INET with Steve Pressman: Could household debt cause the next recession?
Colorado State economist Steve Pressman thinks so: in the next few years rising interest rates could squeeze househol
Joan Robinson, the Rational Rebel
By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was destined to be a rebel. Her father was Sir Fredrick Maurice,
A crisis gone to waste
After the Great Depression, global capitalism underwent serious reform. Why didn’t that happen after 2008? Matias Ve
Call for papers: Productive Structures, Institutions and Distribution
The YSI Economic Development Working Group is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the theme of Productive Structur
Nancy Folbre’s Feminist, Unorthodox Economics
In Nancy Folbre’s wide-ranging career, she has fruitfully melded many traditions and shed light on areas usual
Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
By Lance Taylor, Over the past four decades, American household incomes have become strikingly more unequal, along an
The Growth of a “Dual Economy” in the Centre
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehVTvutAvk&w=761&h=428] Marcella Corsi, Guy Standing, Pe
Trinity 2.0 Update & INET Conference in Scotland
By Scott Carter, We are marking the beginning of the upload of the Trinity 2.0 arrangement of the Sraffa Papers. You can f
Xiao Jiang on Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGXG6ORuoQ&w=640&h=360] In a world composed of global valu
Leila Davis: Are Corporations’ Financial Investments Slowing Growth?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuFrc6NBAI&w=640&h=360] Are corporations’ financial inv
How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation
By William Lazonick, The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators. Conventi
Call For Abstracts: “States place in a globalized economy and the reemergence of nationalism,” INET
Since the last big events concerning this topic (Brexit and Trump’s victory), there has been a myriad of editorials and
J.W. Mason: How Not to Criticize Standard Economic Models
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HiKk9o2C0Q&w=640&h=360] Josh Mason from John Jay College C
George DeMartino: Do Economists Have Social Responsibilities?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBx9pHuxkgc&w=640&h=360] Economics is not, nor can it be, va