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MercurysBall2 ago

Institute for New Economic Thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_New_Economic_Thinking

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. Later funding has come from the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics and the Isaac Newton Trust at the University of Cambridge.

Advisory Board

The INET advisory board includes nobel laureates George Akerlof, James Heckman,[2] 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, Ottmar Edenhofer[3] Barry Eichengreen[4] Thomas Ferguson, Duncan K. Foley, Roman Frydman, Ian Goldin, Charles Goodhart, Andy Haldane[5] David Hendry[6] Simon Johnson[7] Anatole Kaletsky, John Kay, Richard Koo,[8] Axel Leijonhufvud, Perry Mehrling, Zhu Min,[9] Y.V. Reddy, Carmen Reinhart, Hélène Rey, Ken Rogoff, Jeffrey Sachs, John Shattuck, Andrés Velasco,[10] William White and Yu Yongding.

kestrel9 ago

Had some notes on INET

Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9963050/Lord-Turner-forms-unlikely-alliance-with-Soros.html

http://archive.is/t7T3x

Lord Turner forms unlikely alliance with Soros

Lord Turner – the man who wanted to be the next Governor of the Bank of England – is to work alongside George Soros, the man who famously broke the Bank two decades ago.

Lord Turner, the outgoing chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is to join a New York-based think tank founded by Mr Soros.

The regulator, who stands down from his role at midnight tonight when the FSA is split into the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority, is to join the board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The body was established by Mr Soros – who made a profit of £1bn betting against sterling in 1992 – in 2009 with an initial endowment of $50m (£33m).


...The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) is run by Robert Johnson, former managing director of Soros Fund Management, the Hungarian-American billionaire’s hedge fund. https://www.theglobalist.com/contributors/robert-a-johnson/