INET in the News

Turner’s speech at the UK Financial Services Authority

ft. INET’s Perry Mehrling

What is the purpose of markets?

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the World Economic Forum today announced plans for closer collaboration to foster new approaches to economic thinking.

On January 24 2013, the Workers’ Rights Student Coalition at Columbia Law School will host an INET-sponsored evening with top political leadership from SYRIZA, Greece’s dominant opposition party and anticipated next government, to discuss the challenges facing Greece and the euro zone and SYRIZA’s plans for reform.

INET is pleased to announce that Roman Frydman, Chair of INET’s Program on Imperfect Knowledge Economics, has published a book with Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel laureate and Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, Rethinking Expectations: The Way Forward for Macroeconomics (Princeton University Press).

What it will mean for the U. S. economy to go over the “fiscal cliff.”?

Your average economics textbook presents the neat image of a discipline with many useful conceptual paradigms for viewing the world. But it almost never gives any sense of how these ideas developed.

The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate.

Doing Capitalism in the Innovative Economy

You know the country is in a financial mess when even establishment figures such as Rachel Lomax are calling for revolutionary thinking

The Institute for New Economic Thinking has openings for 2-4 Postdoctoral Fellows in New York City.

INET co-founder George Soros has been awarded the Adam Smith Award by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), an association of business economists.

a lack of US growth may lead to a fall in the dollar’s popularity, and the result could be a global liquidity shortage.

A Response to the INET Euro Council Report