Archive
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Webinars and Events
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Prospects and Challenges for India
ConferenceINET-YSI SDG Conference in Jammu, India
Mar 21–22, 2025
We invite doctoral students and early career researchers/assistant professors (within 7 years of their Ph.D.) to a two-day conference that aims to foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues with attention to SDG goals for India.
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INET-YSI Doctoral Scholars' Conference
ConferenceMar 11–13, 2025
Understanding India’s Northeast from Emerging Perspectives
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2nd Edition of Inclusive Development Conference: Housing and Urban Land Management in an Unequal World
ConferenceMar 6–7, 2025
The conference aims to examine the complex interplay of housing, law, economics, and spatial justice in an unequal world, and we welcome scholars and practitioners to participate.
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Understanding and Addressing Emerging Inequalities in the 21st Century in South Asia
ConferenceINET-YSI South Asia Regional Conference on Social Change
Feb 24–26, 2025
As the world grapples with rapid technological advancements, demographic shifts, environmental challenges, and governance transformations, new forms of inequality are emerging.
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Webinars and Events
2nd Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics
PlenaryFeb 17–19, 2025
Following a successful inaugural Meeting of Young Minds in 2024, the Second annual Meeting of Young Minds on 17 – 19 February 2025 is geared to be an exciting and engaging gathering of future leaders in the field of economics.
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Video
Fixing Global Debt
Jan 29, 2025
We need a new blueprint for stability.
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Article
How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It
Jan 28, 2025
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
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Video
The Ripple Effect of Automatic Enrollment
Jan 22, 2025
Automatic enrollment in retirement plans is a game-changer, but it also brings unexpected consequences.
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Article
How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics
Jan 21, 2025
If there is no universally accepted outside authority to tell us how to judge theories then knowledge is only going to progress by means of debate
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Webinars and Events
International Conference on Social Identities, Institutions, and Economic Development in South Asia
ConferenceAzim Premji University Bhopal - INET - YSI Conference
Jan 17–18, 2025
The Economics Group at Azim Premji University, Bhopal, India, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and its Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI), is pleased to announce an international conference aimed at exploring the intricate relationships between social identities, institutions, and economic development in South Asia.
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Video
How Mutual Funds Shape Society
Jan 15, 2025
The power of mutual funds to influence economic and social choices through their voting behavior points to deeper ideologies driving institutional investors.
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Article
The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve
Jan 13, 2025
Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not.
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Article
How to Reclaim America’s ‘Democracy’ From the Big Finance Oligarchy
Jan 6, 2025
Sociologist Michael A. McCarthy’s latest book shows how ordinary people can take back control of financial capitalism and make it work for them.
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Article
America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics
Dec 20, 2024
The country’s flawed insurance model, driven by greed, leads to inefficiency, inequality, and denied care - a colossal scam that has sparked fury across the nation.
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Article
Political Investments
Dec 17, 2024
An interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election conducted by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod and Tim Barker for Phenomenal World