Reawakening

Videos

  1. ​The Real High Income Trap: Political Money, Political Establishments and Power

    Oct 23, 2017 | 09:30

    Not just an American dilemma: is political money in dual economies the biggest problem of all?

  2. The Future of Macroeconomics

    Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30

    Macroeconomics and finance beyond DSG

  3. The Future of the Eurozone

    Oct 21, 2017 | 12:30

    Can a monetary union without true banking and fiscal union be saved? What remains of the hopes that animated the Treaty of Rome?

  4. What's the Future?

    Oct 23, 2017 | 08:30

  5. James Heckman on Intergenerational Issues

    Oct 22, 2017 | 05:15

  6. Why Do Estimates of Immigration's Economic Effects Clash So Sharply?

    Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30

    Untangling the Facts about Immigration in the World Economy.

  7. Emerging Economies

    Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30

    Coping with the dysfunction of advanced economies, and developing strategies for economic development.

  8. Identity Norms and Narratives

    Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30

    The Role These Factors Play in Shaping Economic Knowledge and Behavior

  9. Truth or Consequences: Lessons from Past Democratic Collapses

    Oct 22, 2017 | 01:30

    A look at how liberal democracies have disintegrated amid economic crises. Speakers: Thomas Ferguson, Tiziana Foresti, Nadia Garbellini, Peter Langer, Joachim Voth, Ariel Wirkierman Discussant: James Kurth Chair: Thomas Ferguson

  10. New Developments in the Economics of Imperfect Knowledge

    Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30

    How we can create useful economic theory that recognizes that the future is radically uncertain?

  11. Technology and Economic Development

    Oct 21, 2017 | 07:30

  12. INET and Economics in Cambridge

    Oct 21, 2017 | 06:35—07:20

    A discussion of new economic thinking over the years at Cambridge, and its recent contributions via the Cambridge-INET Institute

  13. Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

    Oct 21, 2017 |

    Adam Smith and his contemporaries were key figures of the Scottish enlightenment. How much of his real thought survives in modern economics, and has something important been lost?

  14. In the Long Run Are We All Dead?

    Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30

    Climate Change and Denial

  15. Core Fractures and International Relations

    Oct 23, 2017 | 04:30

    As dual economies transform countries, how does world politics adjust?

  16. Doubling Down on Failure Subsidizing More One Way Bets?

    Oct 23, 2017 | 02:30

    One-way bets and bubble machines: How can central banks restrain moral hazard when markets know they bail out big banks in financial crises?

  17. Populist Revolts: Economics, Culture, Race, Gender?

    Oct 22, 2017 | 09:00

    Different accounts trace populism to cultural reactions, racial or gender animosity, and/or economics. What does the empirical evidence suggest?

  18. Debt Traps, Public and Private

    Oct 22, 2017 | 04:30

    What role does debt play in triggering economic crises, and is the problem principally public or private sector debt?

  19. Fake News and Fake Experts? Or Should the Experts and the Media Find New Citizens?

    Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30

    Fake news, propaganda, and “expertise”: What has happened to information in the information age?

  20. Reversing Dual Economies?

    Oct 23, 2017 | 11:00

    What can policy do to remedy the spread of dual economies in the developed world?

  21. Gains from Trade

    Oct 22, 2017 | 10:30

    Is Comparative Advantage the Ideology of the Comparatively Advantaged?

  22. Macroeconomics of Gender

    Oct 23, 2017 | 12:45

    What would it look like if women and other marginalized groups could fully participate in our economy and society?

  23. The Growth of a Dual Economy

    Oct 21, 2017 | 05:00

    “Dual Economy” models were developed to explain growth in the developing world. Now they appear necessary to comprehend the high income trap that afflicts the world’s most developed economies.

  24. Taking the Con Out of Economics? The Limits of Negative Darwinism

    Oct 22, 2017 | 12:00

    What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data? 

  25. INET President: Rebuilding A Moral Economics

    Oct 21, 2017 | 11:15

    Rob Johnson kicks off INET’s “Reawakening” conference with his take on how economists can win back the trust of a world that has rejected experts

  26. A Decade of Stagnation, Why?

    Oct 21, 2017 | 11:30

    What explains the slow recovery from the financial crisis and great recession in so much of the world?

  27. Scottish First Minister Opens #INET2017

    Oct 21, 2017 | 11:00

    Nicola Sturgeon covers a range of topics including how economists’ work relates to policymaking, the financial crisis and the dangers of groupthink, how dissatisfaction with stagnating wages and rising inequality played into political shocks like Brexit, the legacy of Adam Smith, why new economic thinking is so important, and what her government is doing to foster and apply it. 

  28. Redefining Inequality

    Oct 22, 2017 | 06:30

    As the old lines continue to shift, what does inequality mean in the modern global economy? And, how does the economy need to evolve to address these changes?