TED Talks
TED: The billion-dollar problem in education | Tanishia Lavette Williams
Standardized testing is deeply woven into the fabric of US education, but does it foster genuine learning? Educator Tanishia Lavette Williams sheds light on the racial biases, financial costs and limited effectiveness of this kind of...
Crash Course
Capitalism, Communism, & Political Economies: Crash Course Geography
Just like many great duos throughout history, Bulgaria and Germany have a fascinating (though uneven) relationship. In today’s episode, we’re going to take a closer look at the impact of politics on economies as we trace this history of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Katharina Pistor: Creating A Legal Foundation For Finance
We have an increasingly complex financial system and a correspondingly complex system of regulation to go with it. Constructing a proper regulatory framework not only entails an understanding of economics and finance, but also law, since...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts? That is a question with which Professor Michael Grubb, Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bruce Caldwell - Why Economics Needs the History of Thought
Who is going to teach fields like economic methodology and the history of economic thought if these fields aren't taught to current graduate students? Bruce Caldwell is filling this hole in the graduate curriculum. The Hayek scholar is...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
D'Maris Coffman -- The Corn Laws: Seeing through the Eyes of Ricardo and Malthus
The British Corn Returns data provided the empirical basis for the fierce debate around the introduction and repeal of the 19th century British Corn Laws. Contemporary readers, like David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus, followed them as...
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Race Has a Regional Dimension in America’s Political Economy
Stanford economic historian Professor Gavin Wright, addressing the Institute’s conference on the economics of race, argues that the conditions facing the children of the great migration from the South are very different to the conditions...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lyn Ossome - Emancipation and Freedom
Lyn Ossome is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Kampala. She holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and was previously Postdoctoral Fellow at the...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Edward Kane - Political Economy of Controlling Systemic Risk
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 8: Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
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How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas
The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right INET President Rob Johnson sits down with The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum to discuss his...
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Gerald Epstein - Banks: How Big Is too Big?
We all know it: The financial sector is bloated and banks are too big to fail. But just how bloated is it, and how much should it be shrunk? Gerald Epstein and his collaborator James Crotty use both micro and macro data to deliver the...
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Andrew Sheng - Sustainability Requires Caging Godzillas
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...
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Fighting Neoliberalism with Keynes & Minsky?
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...
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Task Force on Economics Curriculum reports at INET's Bretton Woods Conference (3 of 3)
Robert Skidelsky and Perry Mehrling take questions from the audience.
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Teaching Economics the Adam Smith Way
In many ways, Adam Smith had a better economics education than today’s students. During the Scottish Enlightenment, moral philosophy was the first course taught at university. It grounded everything else, leading to a more nuanced...
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Kenneth Rogoff: The Emerging Economic and Political Order - What Lies Ahead? (3/5)
Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor of the The Times, moderates the first panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 8, 2011: The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead? Part 3 of 5 with Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of...
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Europe Viewed from the East
In INET's complete interview with Erik Berglöf, he catches us up on what has been happening in Europe recently. The topics covered include how the crisis affected development and regulation of the greater Euro zone, and how countries in...
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Philip Mirowsky, Robert Skidelsky, Bruce Caldwell - Q&A
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 1 - Dinner Q&A Session 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking: Friedrich Hayek versus John Maynard Keynes
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Erik Berglöf: Debt: Inflation and Austerity 2/5
Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development speaks on panel entitled "The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt I: Inflation and Austerity" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
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Prosperity for All
How do we make economic development work for everyone? William Easterly (Professor of Economics @New York University and Co-director @NYU DRI) discusses the critical successes and failures of nations in the evolving global economy.
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Has China Won?
The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable. National University of Singapore's Dr. Kishore Mahbubani talks with INET President Rob Johnson about how both countries can learn from their...
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The Death of Neoliberalism [Suresh Naidu]
Market fetishists may not know it yet, but it's over.Suresh Naidu breaks down neoliberalism, and why it can no longer support itself.Produced by Matthew Kulvicki, Nick Alpha & Ryan Scammell
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America Has No Problems... That Five Years of Full Employment Wouldn’t Fix
During the pandemic, many American workers have been forced to choose between their health and their jobs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Columbia University, argues that a...