Government & Politics

This conference aims to explore important issues of economics of AI, good governance, humanization of AI technologies, privacy, considerations of creative thinking and imagination, and take a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities of AI technologies.

Lincoln Mitchell, Political Science Professor at Columbia University, discusses the increasingly powerful fascist movement in the US., outlining the elements of fascism present in the MAGA movement, including its dependence on a strongman leader, the scapegoating of minorities, threats of violence and curtailing of freedoms of speech and assembly.

David Sirota joins Rob Johnson to examine the history and impact of money in U.S. politics, as explored in Sirota’s investigative podcast series, “Master Plan.” Sirota discusses how a series of judicial rulings and policy changes since the 1970s enabled a system in which the voices of wealthy elites overshadow those of ordinary citizens.

Ever since 2016, INET researchers confirmed the significance of economic issues in Trump’s ascendency.

Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.

Author and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Democracy Collaborative, Marjorie Kelly, talks about her recently released book, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023), which also outlines a vision for democratizing the economy so that it serves the broader public good.

Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.

Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.

Strategizing on Addressing the Planetary Emergency and Unlocking Opportunities for an Exponential Just Transition

Medicare Needs a Perspective on “Collective and Cumulative Learning” in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations

The most crucial issue in European policy, and one on which no big party campaigned and no important public discussion took place, was the fiscal policy stance for the next few years.

Who owns knowledge?

In the global super election year of 2024, populists are threatening to experience a new upswing almost everywhere – whether in the USA, the EU or in East Germany. What makes so many citizens so dissatisfied? What could help win people back and restore their trust in liberal democracy?

How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election approaches?

The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple reliance on interest rates to control inflation.