These ambitious efforts are led by prominent economic scholars in collaboration with younger professors and graduate students.
Programs
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Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Financial Stability
As the pace of financial crises quickens and the volatility of economic shocks intensifies, we need new ways to understand and respond to instability. This program coordinates our research efforts on finance, macroeconomics, and monetary economics.
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Human Capital and Economic Opportunity
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) is an interdisciplinary collaboration incorporating biological, sociological and psychological perspectives into traditional economic questions of inequality and human capital.
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Knightian Uncertainty Economics (KUE)
Rethinking the role of markets and government policy in light of our inherently limited ability to foresee economic and social outcomes
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Political Economy of Distribution
Inequality and distribution—areas underserved by mainstream economics—sit at the heart of The 八卦爆料’s work. This program brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to develop alternative approaches to the problem of inequality.
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Private Debt
The Private Debt initiative is an opportunity to articulate how private debt impacts the economy and to specify the pathways for its effects. The initiative will also lead to better knowledge for the use of regulators, policymakers, journalists, and the public. Finally, the Private Debt initiative will open a better-informed dialogue towards tangible solutions to the problems posed by excessive private debt.
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Secular Stagnation
Are Falling Interest Rates and Slower Growth the 鈥淣ew Normal鈥?