Financier George Soros, who initiated the Institute with a $50 million gift, gives his perspective on the Institute and some of the huge issues facing economists in the 21st century.

"Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability" summarizes the findings of David Tuckett's interviews with fund managers.

The video is a presentation given by a business owner, Michael Dorf, about his company, City Winery. He discusses their initial business plan of selling barrels of wine to bankers, which failed due to the financial crisis, and how they...

This video explains the loanable funds theory. It also highlights the role of credit creation and destruction by banks in determining interest rates. The video explains the factors that influence the demand and supply of loanable funds...

Economic Concentrations in Business School

John Kay, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...

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...

In this recent video, INET's founding sponsor George Soros and executive director Rob Johnson explain INET and its mission to a Reuters reporter<br/>

It looks like this external shock will snowball on top of some underlying faults in the economy to cause an economic crisis that eclipses the 2000’s tech bible and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008.



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Nina Eichacker, assistant professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island, explains how the European “troika” enforces austerity, at the expense of ordinary people.<br/>

David Tuckett suggests markets cannot be driven by fundamentals -- the future is uncertain -- instead, they are driven by stories about fundamentals. Stories change much quicker than fundamentals do, and it is the fluctuations in the...

This video provides a detailed explanation of the differences between debt capital and equity capital as ways of raising finance in the financial markets. The host discusses the various economic agents who operate in these markets and...

The process of electing who will go on to be the most powerful man in the world always makes for big news but perhaps never more so than in 2020. This election is a chance, at least in theory, for the citizens of America to have...

The economic impacts of 2020 have been felt far and wide and we have covered these problems in-depth in a handful of videos on this channel. But the logical question that most people are asking is what comes...

FT markets editor Katie Martin looks at what has happened since so-called retail traders and amateur have-a-go investors bet against GameStop, and whether they really understand the market risks

This video is an introduction to the concepts of bonds in financial markets, explaining what a bond is, who issues them, and their significance in the wider economy. The video breaks down the terminology associated with bonds, such as...