The Institute for New Economic Thinking Opens Its Second Annual Plenary Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
INET Executive Director Dr. Robert Johnson calls for the growth of a community that will rebuild trust in the economics profession. - April 09, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking Has Announced the Latest Speaker and Panel Discussion Confirmations for Its Bretton Woods Conference
Bretton Woods conference speakers now include Jim Balsillie, Gordon Brown, Mark Carney, Richard Koo, George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, and many others. - March 26, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking Announced That It is Now Accepting Research Proposals for Its Spring 2011 Grant Program
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), launched with a $50 million pledge from George Soros to promote changes in economic theory and practice through conferences, research grants and education initiatives, has announced that it is now accepting research proposals for its spring 2011 Grant... - February 07, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking to Hold Its Second Annual Plenary Conference from April 8 to 10, 2011 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
The conference, “Crisis and Renewal: International Political Economy at the Crossroads,” will host over 200 leading economists, finance experts, and young scholars - January 26, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking Has Created an Academic Partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science
INET@LSE will apply ideas from “complexity social science” to improve the design and effectiveness of economic policy - January 26, 2011
Domenico Delli Gatti of Catholic University in Milan to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Delli Gatti to develop new ideas and policy proposals to contain the spread of systemic risk in the financial system - January 09, 2011
Irwin Collier of Freie Universitat Berlin and John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Collier’s project to conduct archival research on the evolution of graduate economics education in the United States. - December 19, 2010
James Heckman of the University of Chicago be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Heckman’s task force on human capital and economic inequality research. - December 19, 2010
Karine van der Beek of Ben-Gurion University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor van der Beek’s project to conduct research on the effect of the technological changes that led to the British Industrial Revolution. - December 19, 2010
Min Zhu Joined the Advisory Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) has appointed Min Zhu, Special Advisor to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund to its advisory board, which also includes five Nobel Prize winners. Prior to his appointment at the International Monetary Fund, he was Deputy Governor... - December 05, 2010
Antonio Guarino of UCL, Douglas Gale of NYU, and Marco Cipriani of GWU to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET Grant will fund Professors Guarino, Gale and Cipriani’s project to study contagion among financial institutions and the role of financial market regulation - December 05, 2010
Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Bruce and the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University - December 04, 2010
Qian Dai of Wuhan University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Dai’s project to uncover the economic forces that drove the evolution of political institutions in traditional China - December 04, 2010
David Tuckett of University College London to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Tuckett’s project to develop a case for “emotional finance” in economics and finance theory. - December 04, 2010
J. Doyne Farmer, Robert Axtell, John Geanakoplos, and Peter Howitt to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund professors Farmer, Axtell, Geanakoplos and Howitt to create a computational model of the current financial crisis - November 30, 2010
Giovanni Dosi of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and Friedrich Schiller University to be Awarded a Grant From the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Dosi’s research into some of the core issues concerning the operation of modern economic systems and the building blocks for alternative economic theories - November 25, 2010
Gerald Epstein and James Crotty of University of Massachusetts, Amherst to be Awarded a Grant From the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund professors Epstein and Crotty to peform in-depth research on issues surrounding “too big to fail” - November 25, 2010
Avner Offer, Phillip Mirowski, and Gabriel Soderberg to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund research into the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and its influence on Market Liberal Policy Norms between 1968-2000 - November 25, 2010
Arindrajit Dube of University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Ethan Kaplan of Columbia University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Dube and Professor Kaplan’s project to conduct research on spatial approach to macroeconomic inference. - November 24, 2010
The Institute for New Economic Thinking Has Launched Its Campus Outreach Program Led by Dr. Robert Johnson and with Professors Stiglitz, Akerlof, and Eichengreen
World-renowned economists engage with students to discuss pressing economic issues, the economics curriculum, and the economics profession in the wake of global financial crisis. - November 22, 2010
Melissa Tartari of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Tartari’s project to conduct an explorative data collection project. - November 17, 2010
Facundo Alvaredo of the Paris School of Economics, Sir Tony Atkinson of Nuffield College and Salvatore Morelli of Oxford University to be Awarded a Grant from INET
The Institute for New Economic Thinking will fund professors Alvaredo, Atkinson and Morelli to Research the Long Run History of Economic Inequality: Income, Wealth, and Financial Crisis. - November 17, 2010
Sophus Reinert and Francesca Viano of Cambridge University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET Grant will fund Professor Reinert and Professor Viano’s project to make historically significant economics texts available in English for the first time. - November 17, 2010
Jayant Ganguli of Cambridge University and Scott Condie of Brigham Young University be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET Grant will fund Professor Ganguli and Professor Condie’s project to examine the informational inefficiency of market prices in the presence of Knightian uncertainty or ambiguity. - November 17, 2010
Diego Comin of Harvard University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Comin to study the drivers and consequences of technology adoption. - November 17, 2010
William Lazonick of the Academic-Industry Research Network to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
INET will fund Professor Lazonick’s project to analyze the ways in which an important financial institution – the stock market – affects the real economic performance of the industrial corporations that are listed on it - November 12, 2010
Cosma Shalizi, Mark Schervish and Daniel Mcdonald of Carnegie Mellon University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund a project to extend proven techniques in statistical learning theory - November 08, 2010
David Harris and Timothy Glatzer of West Virginia University, and Amy Blake of Keane Federal Systems to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Harris, Glatzer and Blake’s project to construct a monograph to permit the modeling of capital, inventory and financial capital in economies. - November 08, 2010
James Robinson of Harvard University and Steven Pincus of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Robinson and Professor Pincus’ research project relating to a new interpretation of the events causing the British Industrial Revolution - November 08, 2010
Steven Medema of University of Colorado Denver to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Medema’s project to write an intellectual history of the Coase theorem - November 08, 2010
John B. Davis of Marquette U. and U. of Amsterdam and D. Wade Hands of the U. of Puget Sound to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Davis’ and Hands’ project to conduct research on herding behavior in the economics and professional investment community. - November 08, 2010
Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Pistor’s multidisciplinary research to perform a series of case studies that would construct a new theory of the relationship between laws and markets. - November 08, 2010
Margaret Levenstein of the University of Michigan and Naomi Lamoreaux of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Levenstein and Professor Lamoreaux’s project to examine historically the long-term costs of macroeconomic instability in a major metropolitan area. - November 06, 2010
Edward J Kane of Boston College, Armen Hovakimian, and Luc Laeven to be Awarded a Grant from Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Kane’s project to conduct a macroeconomics research project relating to systemic risk. - November 05, 2010
Leanne Ussher of Queens College City University of New York, Sorin Solomon and Marco Lamieri to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Ussher’s project to simulate how distress and growth propagate through the real economy. - November 05, 2010
D. Wade Hands of University of Puget Sound to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Hands’ project to conduct the initial research and archiving work at Duke University’s Paul Samuelson archives. - November 05, 2010
Steven Fazzari of Washington University Receives Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Fazzari’s project to develop an original model of Keynesian demand-led growth in developed economies and activities to communicate basic principles of Keynesian macroeconomics to a wide audience - November 05, 2010
David Weinstein of Columbia University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Weinstein’s project to research how the output of firms outside of the financial sector are affected by the health of the banks and other financial institutions. - November 05, 2010
University of California, Berkeley Economic History Lab to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund expansion of Berkeley Economic History Laboratory Programs - November 01, 2010
Bruce Caldwell Joined the Advisory Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) has appointed Bruce Caldwell, Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, to its advisory board, which also includes five Nobel Prize winners. Currently the General Editor of... - October 06, 2010