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Unregistered lobbyists, including former members of Congress, are a key resource for lobbying firms

The YSI Keynesian Economics Working Group is co-hosting a PhD seminar at the Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference entitled

In science, empirical disciplines such as physics, chemistry, history, and parts of sociology and political science, reason from facts.

New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade

Several founding CGET members announce the ambitious project and respond to questions from the press.

Technology has played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitating remote work and automating certain pandemic responses. But it has also...

My attempt at a double riddle.

INET Advisors Help Answer

From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo's ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics

The title of the conference,

The INET conference in Hong Kong is serious business.

This paper studies the glass ceiling by analyzing the presence of women at the top of the income distribution using tax record data reported for a sample of...

This research project shows the European origins of development economics between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and describes how the postwar global...

FT Alphaville has picked up on my friend James Sweeney's latest, and since James cites the latest writings by other friends Zoltan Pozsar, Manmohan Singh, as...

We are a global network of scholars and leaders who are reshaping the role that economics plays in our universities, our politics, and our lives.

We are coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Lehman crash in September 2008. How bad was it? Have we fixed the problems?

With my remarks today on financial markets and the financial crisis, I do not make any claims to originality. Rather, they are intended as a reminder of...

Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same time, transmit external threats. Individuals therefore invest in security to...

A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.

Being the smartest guys in the room doesn't prevent you from making bad decisions.

For the BRICS countries to not just grow their economies but also raise the standard of living of their people, inclusive growth that prioritizes poverty...

Updating Hawtrey for the Shadow Banking System

Is raising required bank capital the answer?

Riccardo Bellofiore explains how managerial capitalism of the post-war era entered into a crisis of profitability in the 1970s, and subsequently metamorphized...

Servaas Storm has conviction, yet his analysis throws the baby out with the bathwater.

Deficit Fantasies in the Great Recession

The illusion of black swan-proofing

Let Them Eat Credit: Has Financial Capitalism Failed the World?

Who does the economist serve: powerful interests or society?

The economy is not gender neutral, but actually relies on gender imbalances to function and grow.

To foster new economic thinking, we host convenings that gather together a diverse community of thinkers from different fields, countries, and schools of...

Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have?...

What can we learn from the Vietnamese, Cuban, Rwandan, and Syrian refugees crisis?

How representation of data can contribute to, or dispel the false certainty of statistical and econometric technique.

Read how did the day of the Berlin conference go

Below is a revised version of a talk I gave at the New School University, at a conference to launch Lance Taylor's latest book. The date of the event was April...

This episode features Pier Carlo Padoan, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, talking about the euro zone crisis, Europe's structural...

How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do...

Like Republicans with political polls, unemployed Black workers are underrepresented in federal employment data because of non-response.

Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.

Prof. Marlene Kim says her research has revealed that African-American women face triple penalties from race and gender bias, and the combination of those two

Registration is now open for YSI Commons, at INET's Plenary Conference, Berlin April 12-15.

Rob Johnson and Michael Sandel discuss the limits of rational choice