Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Nature of Economics | Economics for People with Ha-Joon Chang
Economists like to claim that they can explain everything. But does that really hold up? In this first lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang examines whether economics is science, or politics.
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
When Innovation Meets Authoritarianism
China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian state? INET President Rob Johnson sits down with Julian Gewirtz to discuss his book Unlikely Partners: Chinese...
Financial Times
Brexit: why the pound is under pressure
The FT's Katie Martin explains the weak pound is mainly down to no-deal Brexit worries and sterling's two-year low against the dollar and euro will affect holidaymakers looking forward to trips abroad this summer
The Wall Street Journal
The Bailout & The CFO
What does the government's big economic rescue plan mean for business, and how might it enhance or hobble the landscape for enterprise in years to come?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
David Tuckett - Minding the Markets
"Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability" summarizes the findings of David Tuckett's interviews with fund managers.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
William Rees - The Dangerous Disconnect Between Economics and Ecology
The world economy is depleting the earth's natural resources, and economists cling to models that make no reference whatsoever to the biophysical basis that underpins the economy. That's why ecological economics is needed, says William...
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Cosma Shalizi - Why Economics Needs Data Mining
Cosma Shalizi urges economists to stop doing what they are doing: Fitting large complex models to a small set of highly correlated time series data. Once you add enough variables, parameters, bells and whistles, your model can fit past...
Economics Explained
Is War Good For The Economy?: So What About WW2 & Final Thoughts
Can wars end economic decline? It may have helped in the past, but can it help today? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics and headlines through the eyes of economists....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Deeper Causes of the Global Crisis - Ian Goldin
An Oxford University Professor gives his theory on how the global crisis was rooted in fundamental changes in technology, globalization and the consequent rising complexity.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Back and Forth Book Banter on a Range of Issues
The Author of "Capitalism 4.0" engages INET's Executive Director on a variety of issues in the news that are related to his sweeping new book on Capitalism's future. Anatole Kaletsky interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June...
The Business Professor
Economic Concentrations in Business School
Economic Concentrations in Business School
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Thomas Fricke: Where do we go from here? 1/5
Thomas Fricke, Chief Economist, FT Deutschland introduces the Closing Panel entitled "Overhangs, Uncertainty and Political Order: Where Do We Go From Here?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in...
Economics Explained
No. China Is Not Going To Collapse... Yet: End Of The Economic Miracle?
Why is everybody suddenly predicting that China is on the brink of collapse? What are the chances these predictions will actually come true and why is this most likely totally overblown? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how...
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Changing of the Guard? - INET and FGI Press Conference in Hong Kong
Rob Johnson (Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking), Andrew Sheng (President of the Fung Global Institute), and Yu Yongding (INET Advisory Board member and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics...
Economics Explained
The Economy of the Philippines
The Philippines, a beautiful tropical archipelago of islands that forms one of the most important economies in the world today. This nation often flies under the radar as a quiet achiever but it is both interesting and important to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Katharina Pistor - What Finance (and Economics) Can Learn from Law
Without law and legal institutions, financial markets won't work. That's what economists discovered about 15 years ago, when former socialist countries turned towards capitalism. But economists still conceive of law too narrowly, mainly...
ACDC Leadership
Production Possibilities- EconMovies #3: Monsters Inc (Reupload)
EconMovies explain economic concepts through movies. In this episode, I use Disney/Pixar's Monsters Inc. to introduce the production possibilities curve. Good luck studying economics.
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Jeffrey Frankel: Optimal Currency Areas and Governance - The Challenge of Europe (6/8)
Jeffrey Frankel is a Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011
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Advice to Young Economists: Integrate Different Turfs
In part 6 of INET's interview with Raghuram Rajan he discusses young scholars' opportunities to connect insights from different fields. He also says: "Tools are as good as what you put in. If you got the wrong framework, it doesn't...
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Brad Delong: The Architecture of Asia - INET Panel (5 of 7)
Brad Delong is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011
Economics Explained
Black Market Economics - What Drives the Underground Economy?: Why So Important
We will explore what is the Black Market, why is it so large and influential, how to combat it, and how to make Black Market profits? Helping you become more knowledgeable about how the world works, our content covers the biggest topics...
TLDR News
Could a No Deal Brexit Be Good for Britain? Was it all Project Fear? - TLDR News
With a No Deal Brexit looking like more of an inevitability than a possibility, we take a look at some of the ways in which this outcome could be good for the UK. In this video, we discuss how fishing (again!), potential trade deals and...
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Steven Medema - The Coase Theorem As Fiction
When externalities are present and transaction costs are absent, private parties will strike welfare-enhancing deals regardless of who owns what. In a frictionless world, bargaining leads to efficiency. That is the essence of the Coase...
Economics Explained
The Economics of Disasters: GDP
The Wuhan Coronavirus, the active impeachment of a sitting US president, an earthquake and volcanic eruption in the Philippines, floods in Indonesia, the death of Kobe Bryant, magnitude 7.7 earthquakes in the Caribbean and even my...