Culture

McCloskey discusses her career, critiques of economics, and offers advice for young economists.

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Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free.

Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class

How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women. Professor Girón discusses why microfinance cannot replace development banks.

A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it

This paper presents a model of mass incarceration in the United States, which has the largest proportion of its population imprisoned among advanced countries.

Professor Dutt discusses how group identity is key to addressing inequality and how inequality can disrupt group identity.

The YSI Working group on Gender and Economics invites young scholars to partake in their session at the ATGENDER spring conference

In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.

The “War on Poverty,” and the impact of public policy

Pursuing equality while growing the economy requires reframing social spending as a form of investment.

A transition from the conventional policy of “redistributing income” to “redistributing membership”, could promote economic integration across communities and intergenerational mobility.

Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book

To mark International Women’s Day, Neva Goodwin argues that the crisis of income insecurity and longstanding gender inequality require a form of universal basic income that recognizes and rewards the value of household labor