Latest Documents - New Approaches for Economic Challenges

17-July-2020

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Multilateralism: Another Covid Casualty? - Giampiero Massolo

President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), former Italian G20/G7 Sherpa and Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the series NAEC and the Italian Presidency of the G20.

15-July-2020

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Carmen Reinhart talks to NAEC

Carmen M. Reinhart is the Chief Economist and Vice President of the World Bank Group. She has reshaped the way that both scholars and practitioners think about the international financial system and her research and writing have greatly expanded our understanding of debt, capital flows, and financial and economic crises.

24-June-2020

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Science, Technology and Innovation in Times of Covid-19

A workshop on science, technology and innovation in times of Covid-19, organised by the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) jointly with the OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) initiative, as part of the 2019-20 TIP R&D project, and contributing to OECD-wide efforts in tackling the Covid-19 crisis

12-June-2020

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Lawrence H. Summers talks to NAEC

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.

22-May-2020

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Is this time different? Recovery in a time of pandemic - Paul Krugman

Paul Robin Krugman is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography

15-May-2020

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Will Covid-19 Remake the World? - Dani Rodrik

Covid-19 is reinforcing existing problems of inequality and economic insecurity within nations. In response we need a new direction for policy, investing in continuous education, social protection and flexible markets ("flexicurity")

30-April-2020

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Exiting and Learning from the Covid-19 Pandemic - Michael Spence

Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discusses the exit and restoration of “normal” economic activity, specifically the close alignment between good health outcomes (containment) and speeding up the recovery. Professor Spence also discusses what appears to be large differences in performance across countries and jurisdictions in containing the virus. He looks at post pandemic recovery and longer term changes.

23-April-2020

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Shock-proof: Building Resilient Systems in the 21st Century

The Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of the fragility of some of our most basic human-made systems. What sort of policies and strategies are required to make such systems more resilient? Some of the world’s leading political economic thinkers imagine a next world system, transforming thinking and action to achieve that vision.

5-March-2020

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Integrative Economics

If we want to put people at the centre of economic policy, then economics has to study people. It has to understand how their thoughts, feelings, aspirations, history, and culture interact inside them to produce the decisions and actions visible to the outside world. Understanding people to understand the economy is at the core of NAEC, and is the central issue of this conference on integrative economics.

27-February-2020

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Systemic Thinking for Policy Making

We are living in a period of profound systemic change. We have to identify actions that will shape change for the better, and help to build resilience to the inevitable shocks inherent in, and generated by, the complex system of systems constituted by the economy, society and the environment.