Latest Documents - New Approaches for Economic Challenges

25-February-2021

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The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton

Deficits matter, but not the way we’ve been taught to believe. We’re told the U.S. could end up like Greece and that deficits will burden future generations. These are all myths. Deficits can be used for good or evil. They can enrich a small segment of the population, driving income and wealth inequality to new heights, while leaving millions behind.

17-February-2021

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Radical Uncertainty - John Kay

We do not know what the future will hold, particularly in the midst of a crisis, but we must make decisions anyway. We regularly crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have, forgetting that humans are successful because we have adapted to an environment that we understand only imperfectly. Throughout history we have developed a variety of ways of coping with the radical uncertainty that defines our lives.

27-January-2021

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A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: Towards Economic Re-imagination

A discussion of A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: Towards Economic Re-imagination – an inter-disciplinary effort of medical doctors, neuroscientists and economists. In our brain economy, investments in brain health and brain skills are critical for post-COVID economic renewal, re-imagination, and long-term economic resilience.

27-November-2020

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The Great Demographic Reversal - Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan

The underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds it will be nothing like the past”.

19-November-2020

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Angrynomics - Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive. Angrynomics explores the anger and proposes radical solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world.

10-November-2020

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How Much State in the Post Covid Economy?

Giuliano Amato, Professor Emeritus at the EUI in Florence and the Università La Sapienza in Rome, former Prime Minister of Italy, is speaking in the seminar series NAEC and the Italian Presidency of the G20.

13-October-2020

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Ageing and the Impact of Covid-19 on Demographics

Gian Carlo Blangiardo, President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), speaking in the series NAEC and the Italian Presidency of the G20.

9-October-2020

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Confronting Planetary Emergencies - Solving Human Problems

Covid-19 has shown how a health emergency can provoke severe economic consequences across the planet. The interconnectedness and interdependence of global systems means that any local crisis can rapidly scale up to contribute to planetary environmental, social, economic, and political emergencies. The NAEC Group discuss the urgent changes in analysis and action needed to tackle planetary emergencies and global-scale systemic challenges.

1-October-2020

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - Niall Ferguson

Drawing from multiple disciplines, including history, economics, public health and network science, Niall Ferguson describes the pathologies that have done us so much damage: from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online schism. Covid-19 was a test failed by countries who must learn some serious lessons from history if they are to avoid the doom of irreversible decline.

29-September-2020

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Launch of "The Financial System"

This books publishes short summaries of a diverse range of thinking and proposals from a prestigious series of experts invited by NAEC to share their expertise with those who wish to learn more about the financial system from those at its heart.