A lineup of top Economists explain how the economics profession was partly responsible for the recent Financial meltdown and Great Recession.<br/>

Welcome to our video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



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America’s economic system has failed by not raising living standards for most.



Nobel laureate Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality and The Great Divide, studies the forces driving inequality and what is at stake if...

Should the government regulate personal behavior, or are the irrational choices of people actually reasonable?



Behavioral economics has identified a myriad of cognitive biases that show that people do not behave rationally...

Luigi Pasinetti’s Intellectual Formation; Italy and the two Cambridges

If you want to understand how fund managers choose a portfolio, why not ask them? That's what David Tuckett does: he draws on standard sociological techniques of interviewing to understand investors' decisions to buy or sell assets. He...

In part 4 of INET's interview with Raghuram Rajan he criticizes the narrow focus of most economists: "Just like in medicine: you have to have experts in each area, but you also need general practitioners - to integrate. I think we...

The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 2 Q&A:<b<br/>r/>

What Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and <br/>Non-Financial Sectors?

“They’ve never met a poor person. They’ve never lived in deprived areas.”Ha-Joon Chang explains why economics is too important to be left to economists.Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Ryan Scammell

Why is everybody suddenly predicting that China is on the brink of collapse? What are the chances these predictions will actually come true and why is this most likely totally overblown?



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Matias Vernengo explains how economic crises reveal the nakedness of neoliberal policies.
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Economists like to claim that they can explain everything. But does that really hold up? In this first lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang examines whether economics is science, or...

China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian state?
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INET President Rob Johnson sits down with Julian Gewirtz to discuss his book Unlikely Partners:...

What does the government's big economic rescue plan mean for business, and how might it enhance or hobble the landscape for enterprise in years to come?

The FT's Katie Martin explains the weak pound is mainly down to no-deal Brexit worries and sterling's two-year low against the dollar and euro will affect holidaymakers looking forward to trips abroad this summer

"Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability" summarizes the findings of David Tuckett's interviews with fund managers.

The world economy is depleting the earth's natural resources, and economists cling to models that make no reference whatsoever to the biophysical basis that underpins the economy. That's why ecological economics is needed, says William...

Cosma Shalizi urges economists to stop doing what they are doing: Fitting large complex models to a small set of highly correlated time series data. Once you add enough variables, parameters, bells and whistles, your model can fit past...

Can wars end economic decline? It may have helped in the past, but can it help today?



Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes of...

An Oxford University Professor gives his theory on how the global crisis was rooted in fundamental changes in technology, globalization and the consequent rising complexity.

The Author of "Capitalism 4.0" engages INET's Executive Director on a variety of issues in the news that are related to his sweeping new book on Capitalism's future. Anatole Kaletsky interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June...

Economic Concentrations in Business School

Thomas Fricke, Chief Economist, FT Deutschland introduces the Closing Panel entitled "Overhangs, Uncertainty and Political Order: Where Do We Go From Here?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in...

Why is everybody suddenly predicting that China is on the brink of collapse? What are the chances these predictions will actually come true and why is this most likely totally overblown?



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