PBS
Will Economic Stimulus Save the Economy? (COVID-19)
The U.S. just passed the biggest economic stimulus package in history in response to COVID-19... what do past examples tell us about its effectiveness?
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Financial Reform in a Crisis: The Swedish Solution
Whenever the question is raised about the appropriateness of the bailouts for our largest financial institutions during the most recent financial crisis, the usual response among people who defend the idea is to suggest that without...
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Richard Koo: How the West is Repeating Japan's Mistakes
In INET's exclusive interview with the Chief Economist at Nomura Research Institute's Richard Koo, he discusses the ideas behind "Balance Sheet Recessions," why QE2 won't work, and how China's monetary policy was effective in the wake of...
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The Economy’s Cuban Missile Crisis
In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks. Adam Tooze, Columbia University historian and author of the new book Crashed: How a Decade of...
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Kevin O'Rourke: Optimal Currency Areas and Governance - The Challenge of Europe (2/8)
Kevin O'Rourke describes a political trilemma in Europe. He says that if the nation state remains dominant in the Eurozone, the trilemma suggests two possibilities. Either public opinion is successfully ignored in countries like Germany,...
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Andrew Sheng: The Challenge of Large, Complex Financial Institutions (4/7)
The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Andrew Sheng, Chief Adviser at the China Banking Regulatory Commission. The other panelists...
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Two Faces of the Crisis 3/4
In part 3 of this four-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about Varoufakis's new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the...
SWPictures
SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Times of Crists - The Philippines Fights Back
Reverberations from the financial crisis are still being felt around the world. We travel to the Philippines to see if measures introduced after the Asian financial crash in the 90’s are helping during the current global recession. Asia,...
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What is the future of Capitalism?
As China and Russia adopt their own variants, the reign of capitalism seems absolute. Yet there are many who wish for an alternative and some who claim a final crisis is in the making. Is there a radical alternative that we have not yet...
The Wall Street Journal
What I Learned From 2008
Mickey Drexler, founder of Drexler Ventures and the former CEO of J.Crew, discusses how he navigated the clothing brand through the 2008 financial crisis alongside two founders who both started their companies during the last recession.
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The Story of the Conference From a Wide Range of Interviews - INET Documentary
"Economics in Crisis and the Crisis in Economics" was the theme of INET's inaugural conference, held at King's College at the University of Cambridge in April 2010. This is a short documentary that covers the background of the...
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Robert and Edward Skidelsky - How Much is Enough? 1/3
In the first part of this three-part INET "From the Director's Chair" interview, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Robert Skidelsky and his son Edward Skidelsky about their book, How Much is Enough? Money and the Good...
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Rob Johnson Introduces INET's Inaugural Grantees
Rob Johnson, the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, introduces some of the most interesting and exciting Inaugural grantees.
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The Debt We Don't Talk About
How do you know a major financial crisis is coming? Look for a spike in privately held debt, by households and corporations. That's the argument of Richard Vague, author of The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It....
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Domenico Delli Gatti: Instability in Financial Markets 1/5
Domenico Delli Gatti, Professor of Economics, Catholic University Milan speaking at the breakout panel entitled "Instability in Financial Markets: Sources and Remedies" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost...
Global Ethics Solutions
Employee Ethical Decision-Making Skills - What You Need to Know
This is the third video in the powerful Ethical Decision-Making series that provides practical information that employees need to know to deal with common ethical dilemmas at work. Topics include dealing with ethical dilemmas,...
Financial Times
In charts: why millennials are worse off than their parents
From higher unemployment figures, heavier burden loans and less chances of out-earning their parents at the same age, the FT's Lauren Leatherby explains in 5 charts why young Americans might not afford the lifestyle that their parents...
The Wall Street Journal
Investing In A Data-Driven Future
The world's biggest search and advertising giant is going all-in on data and artificial intelligence. Playing a key role in that evolution is Ruth Porat, Alphabet and Google's SVP and CFO, who speaks with WSJ's Jason Anders.
Curated Video
William Janeway: Which Way Forward? 2/6
William Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus, speaks on panel, entitled "Which Way Forward: Reflections on Global Turmoil and the Role of Markets, Governments, and Civil Society" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
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Thomas Ferguson: Political Economy of Structural Adjustment (2/7)
Thomas Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, speaking at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011.
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Perry Mehrling - The New Lombard Street: Anatomy of Crisis
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 1: Anatomy of Crisis The Living History of the Last 30 years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy
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Jeff Sachs - Survival of the Fittest: The Need for Comparative Economics 3/5
In Part 3 of this interview From the Director's Chair, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson talks with Jeffrey Sachs about the realities of the American fiscal situation. The focus on small government can't fit ever-lower taxes for the...
Intelligence Squared
Angrynomics: Why The World is So Angry
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the v...
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How do we move beyond the “austerity” debates?
And how do they relate to our democratic institutions and institutional social relations? We debate these topics with Italian author Thomas Fazi, focusing on Europe but searching for answers to the most divisive economic debates of our...