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 Great Recession, and runs a variety of affiliated programs at major universities such as the Cambridge-INET Institute at the University of Cambridge.
History
INET was founded with an initial pledge of $50 million from businessman and philanthropist George Soros.[2]
Affiliates
The Institute has disbursed approximately $4 million annually in research grants to students and professors. The Cambridge-INET Institute (co-funded with William H. Janeway) established an advanced institute for economic thinking at the University of Cambridge, The Cambridge-INET Institute was endowed with $3.75 million grant from the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics, Isaac Newton Trust, and the University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics.[3] In January 2011, the INET partnered with the Centre for International Governance Innovation to support research in economic theory and innovative projects.[4] Similar collaborations exist with the INET at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, which was co-funded by James Martin, as well as the INET Center on Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) at the University of Copenhagen.[5]
Programs and projects
Research programs supported by INET include:
INET Grant program to support researchers who challenge economic orthodoxy and help develop new paradigms in the discipline.[6]