Take-aways from the YSI Plenary By Christina Mosalagae What is your true purpose? What keeps you going when you are sailing against the tide, when the mainstream is against you? That was the question that INET President Rob Johnson posed at the start of the […]
In a profoundly invigorating keynote speech, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the of Jawaharlal Nehru University, urges young economists to to take initiative and transform their discipline. Outlining eight problems with the status quo, and providing five […]
By Diego Castañeda Garza Some scholars would argue that the world was first globalised as far as five centuries in the past when the European conquests of the new world brought its sinews to the old. When silver began to circulate the globe as the […]
By Sergio Chaparro Hernández The unfulfilled promise of a just global order The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which her rights can be fully realized. However, the functioning of the global economy today is far from aligned with the kind […]
By Baptiste Albertone The weight of the past has sometimes been more present than the present itself. And a repetition of the past has sometimes seemed to be the only foreseeable future. Enrique Krauze The history of independence in Latin America is a history of reproduction […]
By Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier The widespread neoliberal model and the financialization of the economy is linked to the skewed system by which production factors are rewarded, whereby increasingly the lion’s share of income generated is going to reward capital compared to labor thereby increasing […]
By Soo-hyun Lee When it comes to understanding the relationship between investment and sustainability, national and international governance institutions take a facilitative rather than regulatory approach. This is largely premised on two assumptions: (1) overreach would result in regulatory chilling that could limit investment and […]
By Alessandro Bonetti In this period of crisis, political and economic discussions are polarized. On the one hand, some persist in defending the standard neoliberal dogmas, even if they hide behind the curtain of apparent change. On the other hand, others advance vague palingenesis. For […]
Looking for a good book for during the holidays? Here are some recommendations from your YSI coordinators!
