The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right
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INET President Rob Johnson sits down with The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum...

Missing the big picture is all too common in the field.



Lance Taylor, Professor Emeritus at The New School for Social Research, has focused on the reconstruction of macroeconomic theory and seeks to challenge mainstream...

In the second part of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Journal of Post Keynesian Economics co-founder Paul Davidson about Davidson's book The Keynes Solution:...

In this fifth and final lecture in the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s “Feminist Economics” series, Professor Jayati Ghosh explores some of the shortcomings of mainstream economics. Heavily reliant on unrealistic assumptions and...

Economics can be more effective if we try to integrate pure theory with real-world observation and insights from other disciplines, Lord Adair Turner says

Most economists think of economics as a science. But are they right? If so, what kind of science is it? You can put on the uniform of a policeman, but does that make you a policeman?
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Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free. George DeMartino discusses economist’s influence, whether they should ever lie, and the irreparable ignorance that haunts economics. DeMartino argues for professional ethics in economics as a...

If we’re headed for a recession, blame the economists who flunked history class.History has long been downplayed by economists, even though it holds the keys to answering some of the most important questions today. Why did the stock...

We all know it: The financial sector is bloated and banks are too big to fail. But just how bloated is it, and how much should it be shrunk? Gerald Epstein and his collaborator James Crotty use both micro and macro data to deliver the...

How do economists seek to establish their so-called laws? What is the scientific status of such laws? Are they always valid or merely useful rules-of-thumb?
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“It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics.”

– Ha-Joon

Chang

Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where...

Economists aren't born, they're made. Irwin Collier digs into archives to find out how Paul Samuelson and his generation were made. What did they learn, and how did they learn it? While today's graduate schools focus on quantitative...

Gernot Wagner, Economist, Environmental Defense Fund speaking at a panel entitled "New Economics, Climate Change, and New Models of Growth" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April...

Not only do we as humans make financial mistakes, our mistakes are predictable! Here's the story of how we learned that we can predict our mistakes and 5 of them you can avoid.

An individual fish reduces the danger to itself by swimming as close as possible to the center of the school. That is how schools hold together. John Davis says that researchers and fish are alike -- both engage in herd behavior. PhD...

Building Trust in a Negotiation

When is one theory better than the other? What is progress in economics? "The Kids" asked a dozen economists in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, and we invite you to watch what they said.



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Money isn't actually valuable. It's just pieces of metal, pieces of paper, or more recently, computer code. So how did money come to be such a driving force of modern life?

I made this video to explain why a global pandemic is difficult for economists and policymakers to address. COVID-19 can potentially cause a demand and supply shock. Whether or not that results in a global recession is up to consumers....

Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we become blind to their limitations.
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Harvard economist Dani Rodrik talks to INET President Rob Johnson about pluralism in economics and widening the lens through...

Having children forced Professor Donna Ginther to better focus on her work and to budget time wisely. It also gave the University of Kansas economics researcher first-hand experience with being a mother in a rigorous, mostly male,...

Hey econ students! In this video I expain how the economy can self-adjust in the long-run. Notice that the short-run aggregate supply is shifting when the economy self-adjusts. Also notice that the reason for the shift is a change in...

Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, reports on the progress of the Economics Curriculum Task Force at INET's Bretton Woods Conference.<br/>

Alan Murray, Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderates the panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011: What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future? Part 1 of 4 with Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus...