TIME magazine assistant managing editor Rana Foroohar’s book Makers and Takers sounds an important note of warning on the dangers of financialization of the U.S. economy. She reveals that the financial system no longer funds new ideas...

Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free. George DeMartino discusses economist’s influence, whether they should ever lie, and the irreparable ignorance that haunts economics. DeMartino argues for professional ethics in economics as a...

This video highlights the importance of addressing both terrorism and Islamophobia in Singapore. The video emphasizes the need for dialogue and education to combat religious prejudice and promote religious literacy among...

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As the interview with Hans Werner-Sinn...

The European project, which was designed to bring lasting peace to the continent, is under threat.





How?

Through the insistence of elites that a common currency should be imposed, but under...

Welcome to our new video series called "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today.



This first...

Lord Adair Turner describes what needs to happen for economics to move forward, and how institutions like INET can help

The Financial Crisis

Financial business is creating credit without limit until a crisis occurs. That's the fundamental flaw which caused the current crisis, says Andrew Sheng in this INET interview. He also worries that the destruction of the tropical forest...

Kat Cole, president and chief operating officer of Focus Brands, discusses the unique perspective female leaders offer during tumultuous times, as well as how she is rethinking growth opportunities and company culture in response to the...

FT science editor Clive Cookson on why the testing response in different regions has left western nations catching up with a crisis they never expected, and why culture, politics and behaviour are all important factors in beating the...

In this video, the speaker discusses the potential response of Singapore to a terrorist attack and the need for unity and resilience. They explore different suggestions to improve religious harmony in the country, such as...

Interviewed by Institute President Rob Johnson, Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier — co-author of Europe and the Battle of Ideas — sees the fate of the embattled European union as depending on the outcome of a battle of ideas...

Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich compares the current Euro crisis with the US debt crisis in the 1840s, when the US had a common currency and a fully-fledged central government, and nine out of 27 US states defaulted. That crisis, he says, did...

Interview with Robert Kuttner

Riccardo Bellofiore explains how managerial capitalism of the post-war era entered into a crisis of profitability in the 1970s, and subsequently metamorphized into a new stage, where the role of banks changed, households became net...

The neoclassical vision of saving and lending -- the standard model being taught in universities -- causes economists to be blindsided by the dynamics of debt in the economy, according to Steve Keen. In part 3 of this INET interview,...

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?

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...

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,...

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...

In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks.
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Adam Tooze, Columbia University historian and author of the new book Crashed: How a...

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...

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...