Rob Johnson (Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking), Andrew Sheng (President of the Fung Global Institute), and Yu Yongding (INET Advisory Board member and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at CASS) speak at a press conference on April 3 before INET's "Changing of the Guard?" conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Hong Kong.
It has been an exciting year for new economic thinking.
Both the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and its community of thinkers expanded greatly in 2012. In addition, INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.
Follow the link below to read INET Executive Director Rob Johnson's complete post: http://ineteconomics.org/blog/inet/2012-year-review
The 1st Annual Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality was hosted at the University of Chicago from July 9-15, 2012 under the direction of Steven N. Durlauf and James J. Heckman. The program brought together 37 doctoral students from across the globe to spend a week in Chicago with the goal of providing exposure to a multidimensional approach to the study of inequality and human flourishing. During this intense week, students attended lectures, engaged in discussions with faculty, presented their research, and received feedback from faculty and their peers. Students were selected from a diverse, competitive applicant pool and represented many disciplines including economics, social thought, social work, sociology, and public policy. Thanks to Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, residence hall lodging and community meals were arranged to provide students more opportunities to discuss their work and the relationships among their research areas.
Professors James Heckman and Steven Durlauf designed a program that brought together a diverse faculty from the fields of economics, finance, statistics, and epidemiology to give lectures and discuss research with students at organized dinners, poster sessions, and office hours. The 2012 lecturers and topics included those listed below.
INET Director Robert Johnson talks to Steve Keen about the financial crisis, about endogenous money, and about Keen's new book "Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned"
The History of Economics Playground is a featured blog on ineteconomics.org. We invited these young bloggers -- self-styled as "The Kids" -- to attend our annual conference in Bretton Woods last April, and we provided them with a video team. The Kids were playing in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel, chasing everyone from George Akerlof to Anatole Kaletsky to Brad DeLong to James Galbraith. Watch the result.
This is the complete set of all the talks, interviews, and edited documentaries from the Inaugural Conference at King's College, Cambridge in April 2010.
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)'s mission is to nurture a global community of next-generation economic leaders, to provoke new economic thinking, and to inspire the economics profession to engage the challenges of the 21st century.
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