David Weinstein of Columbia University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
Summary
“Japan’s financial crises of the 1990s have a number of striking parallels to the 2008 global crisis that make it especially relevant for understanding what has happened here more recently.” David E. Weinstein is Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University.INET’s support was instrumental in providing me the data and resources to carry out this analysis.” INET’s Inaugural Grant Program has been designed to harness the new economic thinking we recognize as crucial to effecting change.Ultimately, INET is committed to broadening and accelerating the development of innovative thinking that can lead to insights into and solutions for the great challenges of the 21st century and return economics to its core mission of guiding and protecting society.“Japan’s financial crises of the 1990s have a number of striking parallels to the 2008 global crisis that make it especially relevant for understanding what has happened here more recently.”David E. Weinstein is Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University.Ultimately, INET is committed to broadening and accelerating the development of innovative thinking that can lead to insights into and solutions for the great challenges of the 21st century and return economics to its core mission of guiding and protecting society.