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Don't Be Evil. Rana Foroohar on Big Tech.
INET President Rob Johnson talks with the Financial Times’ Rana Foroohar about her new book, Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed It’s Founding Principles—And All Of Us (Currency, 2019).
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Conference Highlights on a Wide Array of Talks
A quick overview of the talks that took place at INET's Inaugural Conference at King's College, Cambridge
Curated Video
Is Technology Killing Capitalism?
Is Market Capitalism simply an accident of certain factors that came together in the 19th and 20th centuries? Does the innovation of economics require a new economics of innovation? Is the study of economics deeply affected by the...
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A Short Introduction to the New Book "Capitalism 4.0"
Board Member Anatole Kaletsky gives an overview of his terrific new book on today's reinvention of capitalism on a scale only seen 4 times in 250 years. Interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June 2010.
Financial Times
China, Russia and the new space race
China and Russia have signed a deal to build a Moon base together as they seek to rival the US in orbit, on the Moon and beyond. The FT's global China editor James Kynge and Moscow bureau chief Henry Foy look at how their partnership...
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Let's be Honest About Mathematics
Eric Weinstein - mathematician, economist, Managing Director of Thiel Capital, discusses the role of mathematics in economics. Watch the full interview at: www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/interviews-talks/is-technology-killing-capitalism
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The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour
Taking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved catastrophic.
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How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy
Neoliberalism, warns Professor Wendy Brown, has created a form of reasoning in which human beings are reduced to their economic value and activity, and in which all fields of human activity are treated as markets and institutions,...
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Systemic Crises Create Great Opportunities for the Young
The systemic crisis we just witnessed opens up a rare opportunity for young economists and for the entire system of capitalism to evolve into a better form. Anatole Kaletsky interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June 2010.
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Capitalism and the media: Can crowdfunding spare us from bad news?
Julia Cage warns that a media ravaged by market forces cannot serve democracy’s need for an informed citizenry.
Economics Explained
How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes: Matured Capitalism
The Economic Explained team uses Statista for conducting our research. Check out their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuj2... This is the Netherlands, a picturesque nation filled with windmills, tulip fields, and uhh...
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The Moscow-Washington Hotline: Avoiding Nuclear War with Russia
In 1962, the Moscow-Washington Hotline was established as a quick and accurate means of communication between two of the world's greatest superpowers. Since then, the technology used to facilitate this line of communication has changed...
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation and Regulation of Monopolies
We've all played the board game monopoly. Perhaps surprisingly, this is a pretty good introduction regarding the concept of a monopoly in economics. This is a situation when a single seller dominates a market. How do monopolies come...
Financial Times
How the 20-year war changed Afghanistan | FT Film
An Afghan photojournalist, former politician, young musician, Nato interpreter, female filmmaker, and a student whose mother was assassinated, reveal the impact of war... as US troops pull out and the Taliban gains ground
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What Money Can't Buy Trailer (2018)
What Money Can’t Buy is a six-part series exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.Should you be able to sell your kidney? Should we auction off the right to immigrate? What about paying people to vote? Is there anything...
Economics Explained
Why Economists Never Agree on Anything?
An economy is a collection of production and consumption processes that are all working towards solving the central economic problem. The problem is that we only have access to a finite amount of resources, but the potential for human...
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Manipulating Government's Good Intentions
In part 2 of INET's interview, Raghuram Rajan acknowledges that "government is there to soften the rough edges of capitalism." But - despite good intentions - the government is prone to manipulation by private interests, he warns.
Intelligence Squared
Why we need a 'Green New Deal' to stop Climate Change
The third speaker in this climate change debate is lawyer and Extinction Rebellion activist Farhana Yamin, known for glueing herself to Shell's headquarters.... [Part 3/5] Farhana Yamin Thinks We Need a Green New Deal to Stop Climate Change
Financial Times
Will China become the centre of the world economy?
The global economy is shifting away from the US and Europe towards Asia. The FT's global China editor James Kynge and FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu discuss whether China will dominate global commerce or whether the world economy...
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We Can—And Must—Reform Capitalism.
Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better One of the Right’s greatest successes has been claiming that their definition of capitalism is as radically laissez-faire is fixed. It’s time to...
Financial Times
Why capitalism has become too gentle
The FT Lex team’s Jonathan Guthrie and Dan McCrum debate why now could be the time for new challengers to break up oligopolies such as banking and lift productivity.
Financial Times
Crunched: is capitalism really ending poverty?
The FT's Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch look at the measures for poverty and inequality and unpick the argument that capitalism is benefiting everyone.
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Vamsi Vakulabharanam - Inequality in Asia: The Local Effects of Global Capitalism
Inequality did not increase during the early stages of economic development in Japan and the East Asian Tigers. But in India and China it did. Why is that? Vamsi Vakulabharanam suggests that the explanation lies not with the...
Financial Times
Can plant-based milk beat conventional dairy?
Plant-based milk makers are whipping up billions in investment and trade with new products coming to market and more buyers turning to non-dairy alternatives. But as the FT’s Judith Evans reports, plant-based milks have some way to go to...