Technology & Innovation
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Conference paper
The Economics of Cyberwar
Apr 2014
Cyberwar is very much in the news these days. It is tempting to try to understand the economics of such an activity, if only qualitatively. What effort is required? What can such attacks accomplish? What does this say, if anything,about the likelihood of cyberwar?
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Cyber War, Cyber Space: National Security and Privacy in the Global Economy
Apr 10, 2014 | 12:45—02:15
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Innovation and Globalization: Playing Catch-up v. Pushing the Frontier
Apr 10, 2014 | 06:00—07:30
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Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments
Apr 10, 2014 | 09:00—10:45
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Explorations in New Economic Thinking
Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30
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Pressures on Pensions
Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30
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The Economics of Radical Uncertainty
Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30
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Conference paper
Profits Without Prosperity: How Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market, and Leave Most Americans Worse Off
Apr 2014
Five years after the end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the apparent prosperity.
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Conference paper
Who should do R and who should do D?
Apr 2014
This article studies the reasons for the under-investment in research vs. development in the decentralized equilibrium and argues that this bias provides a micro-foundation for the government direct involvement in conducting applied research rather than just financing it.
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014 | 03:15—05:00
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Human After All
PlenaryApr 10–12, 2014
The Institute for New Economic Thinking joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in holding its fifth Annual Conference from April 10 to April 12, 2014 in Toronto.
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Innovation & Financial Reform
Apr 9, 2014
Adair Turner at the Institute’s #HumanAfterAll conference in Toronto, CA (2014).
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Innovation: To What Purpose?
Apr 9, 2014 | 02:15—04:00
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Conference paper
The Persistence of a Reckless Banking System
Apr 2014
The fall of 2008 was scary. For most people, the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy resembled a major earthquake with strong aftershocks. Official narratives have promoted the image of the crisis as a rare, unpreventable and unforeseen natural disaster, the “100-year flood.” Policymakers emphasize the extraordinary measures they have taken to prevent the system from collapsing and to support recovery since.