Institute for New Economic Thinking
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| Formation | October 2009 |
|---|---|
| Founder |
James Balsillie, William H. Janeway, George Soros |
| Type | Think tank |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) research and education nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Fields |
Macroeconomic and Post-Keynesian theory and policy |
President | Robert Johnson |
Chairman of the Governing Board | Adair Turner |
| Website |
ineteconomics |
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) is a New York City-based nonprofit think tank. It was founded in October 2009 as a result of the 2007–2012 global financial crisis. Its 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".[1]
Funding
INET was founded with an initial pledge of $50 million from George Soros. It has since been supplemented by donations from James Balsillie and William H. Janeway, together with other philanthropists and financiers, including Paul Volcker, David Rockefeller, the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Stiftung Mercator.
Advisory board
The INET advisory board includes nobel laureates George Akerlof, James Heckman, Sir James Mirrlees, Amartya Sen, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as other prominent economists such as Markus K. Brunnermeier, Willem Buiter, Wendy Carlin, Paul Davidson, Robert Dugger, Thomas Ferguson, Duncan K. Foley, Roman Frydman, Ian Goldin, Charles Goodhart, Anatole Kaletsky, John Kay, Axel Leijonhufvud, Perry Mehrling, Y.V. Reddy, Carmen Reinhart, Hélène Rey, Ken Rogoff, Jeffrey Sachs, John Shattuck, William R. White and Yu Yongding.[2]
Affiliates
The Institute has disbursed approximately $4m annually in research grants. The INET at the Oxford Martin School was co-funded by James Martin and the Oxford Martin School. The Cambridge-INET Institute was co-funded with William H. Janeway, and the INET Center on Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) is located at the University of Copenhagen.
Programs and projects
Research programs supported by INET include:
- The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, headed by James Heckman, is affiliated with the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at University of Chicago.[3]
- History of Economic Thought taskforce, headed by Bruce Caldwell of Duke University.
Eric Beinhocker, executive director of INET-Oxford, independently authored a book introducing some of the ideas held by some INET-associated economists, The Origin of Wealth.[4]
Administration
The executive director is Robert Johnson, former managing director at the hedge funds Soros Fund Management and Moore Capital Management.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Mission statement", INET web site.
- ↑ "About INET: Leadership." Institute for New Economic Thinking web page. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "The Human Capital and Economic opportunity Global Working Group". The University of Chicago. 27 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ↑ Beinhocker, Eric D. (2006). The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Harvard Business School Press. Retrieved 8 June 2013. ISBN 978-1-57851-777-0.
- ↑ Irwin, Neil (29 July 2010). "A crossroads for the U.S. economy". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 January 2011.