A few weeks ago we made a video explaining the housing crisis in Britain; today we're here to solve it. So in this video, we run through some proposals for how the crisis could be stopped and what the future of housing in Britain could...

In this video, Ross Campbell, an expert in crisis management, discusses the importance of exercising and scenario planning in preparing for potential crises. He emphasizes the need to test and validate crisis response plans through...

This is the fourth video in the powerful Ethical Decision-Making series that provides practical “how-to” information to help any employee effectively deal with the wide variety ethical decisions in the workplace. Learn steps to deal with...

In this short interview, Institute for New Economic Thinking co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the Institute's mission: What's wrong with economics and what can we do to change it?"Economic theory needs to be...

Jonathan Jansen is Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, the MS degree from Cornell University, and...

Welcome to our new video series called "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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Even when covid-19 is under control, the long-term effects of the virus will be far-reaching. How will the coronavirus pandemic—and the way it has been handled—change the world?

At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip spoke with MIT Sloan School of Management's Dr. Simon Johnson and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health's Dr. Joshua Sharfstein on the public health gaps COVID-19 has...

The FT's Gillian Tett discusses the 'flaw' in Alan Greenspan's thinking and how culture has been overlooked at the cost to the global economy 10 years on from the financial crisis. By understanding the role of culture in banking, are we...

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Toward a New Global <br/>Financial Architecture

Since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, there has been much debate about reforming the financial sector and improving the accountability of its major actors. In fact, many of the principals involved in creating the...

There is now a growing consensus among policymakers and academics that a key element to improve safeguards against financial instability is to strengthen the “macroprudential” orientation of regulatory and supervisory...

In the first 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: The...

In part 4 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...

In 2006, the Fed asked its macroeconometric model what would happen if house prices dropped by 20%. The model projected the past into the future and said: "Not much." Well, the financial crisis proved it wrong. Meanwhile, DSGE models,...

The global economic and financial crisis hit Eastern Europe harder than anywhere in the world. The region was shut off from global financial flows essentially overnight and some Eastern European countries lost a staggering 20% of GDP in...

This video explores the impact of terrorism on religious harmony in Singapore. Through interviews with university students and individuals from different faiths, the host uncovers the challenges faced in bridging the gap of...

No matter who you are or what you do for a living, there is always a possibility that an ethical dilemma can occur. The key to overcoming these dilemmas is identifying and understanding the source. In this course you will learn about...

What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question. While in the US you will find data on banks and data on firms separately, in Japan there's data that...

Describes how the broken political system allows opportunities for other institutions to make change and step in to that leadership role

Roger Guesnerie, Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization, Paris School of Economics speaks on panel entitled "What Can Economists Know: Rethinking the Foundations of Economic Understanding at the Institute for New Economic...

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell the history of financial crisis as a tale of excessive public debt. But what more commonly drives financial instability, says Moritz Schularick, is excessive private debt. Financial crises are...

In Part 2 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about money in American politics. Sachs sees a "system of legalized corruption" that has distorted political...

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Anatomy of Crisis The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics

and Policy

The current economic and financial...