Philosophy & Ethics

The History of Economic Thought and the Philosophy of Economics working groups are organising a Young Scholars Workshop on the methods and approaches to the history of economics that have consolidated during the last two decades.  

The Role These Factors Play in Shaping Economic Knowledge and Behavior

YSI Philosophy of Economics working group is organising a workshop preceding the INEM conference.

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

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

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

Policies based on faith in the “market” as a principle of social organization have wrought havoc with a founding principle of American democracy

A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen

Young Scholars from the YSI working groups on Innovation, Complexity Economics, Philosophy of Economics and Financial Stability will present their research at a one-day workshop following The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

In his keynote address to our #EconOfRace conference in Detroit, Rev. Dr. William Barber III issued a blistering critique of structural inequality in the United States, and urged economists to recognize their responsibility to the poor.

Pernicious cultural norms inside American banks and regulatory agencies have crowded out fundamental moral principles. Ed Kane proposes an antidote.

Since Aristotle the question about the potential relationship between economic inequality and democratic changes has been studied and debated – but scientifically our ability as researchers to assess and understand how such complex social phenomena may be related is much more limited than recognised.