About

We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.

Research

We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

Articles

Commentary, analysis, interviews, and research summaries by INET-affiliated writers.

Video

Interviews, presentations and video series with provocative economic thinkers, public figures and students.

Podcast

Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson, a podcast featuring interviews with some of the world’s most important thinkers, artists, and activists about the pressing issues of our time. The podcast is also available on all major podcasting platforms, such as Apple, Spotify, Google, and Podbean.

Education

Video series and courses for students and educators interested in exploring new economic thinking.

Events

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

YSI

Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

Topics

Browse all INET content organized by topic

#INET2017

Material from, and related to, INET’s 2017 conference: Reawakening

Article

Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now

By Gonçalo Fonseca

Oct 20, 2017

What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?

Article

What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 20, 2017

Event

Reawakening

Oct 21–23, 2017

Video

It's Time to Get Radical on Inequality

Featuring Joe Stiglitz

Jun 25, 2015

Video

The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class

Featuring William Lazonick

Apr 19, 2017

Video

The Consequences of Money-Manager Capitalism

Featuring Adair Turner

Oct 20, 2014

Video

China and the Challenge of Economic Reform

Featuring Andrew Sheng

Aug 27, 2015

Video

How the Economics of the Economics Profession Resists New Thinking

Featuring James Heckman

Feb 22, 2017

Video

Government Risk and Private Sector Reward

Featuring Mariana Mazzucato

Oct 29, 2014

Video

The Economics of Uncertainty

Featuring Sheila Dow

Nov 6, 2013

Studies in psychology, neuroscience, biology, and many of the social sciences have long illustrated that human beings react very different from what economics textbooks tell you to expect when they are operating under conditions of radical uncertainty.

Video

The Four Horsemen of the Econopocalypse

Featuring Richard Bookstaber and Rob Johnson

Jul 26, 2017

If standard economic theory can’t explain a traffic jam, how can it cope with crises?

Video

A Computer Simulation of Monetary Dynamics

Featuring Steve Keen

Feb 1, 2014

Video

The Euro Crisis - The German Perspective

Featuring Dennis J. Snower

Sep 4, 2013

Video

Why Economics Needs the History of Thought

Featuring Bruce Caldwell

Jun 29, 2011

Video

What the ‘Dual Economy’ Model Reveals About Today’s America

Featuring Peter Temin

Jan 30, 2017