The Institute for New Economic Thinking is a New York City

New York City

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-based nonprofit think tank founded in October 2009 with a $50 million pledge by George Soros

George Soros

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 as a result of the Financial crisis of 2007-2010.
It has nobel laureates George Akerlof

George Akerlof

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, Sir James Mirrlees

James Mirrlees

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998....

, A. Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz on its advisory board, as well as other top economists such as Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...

, Willem Buiter

Willem Buiter

Willem Hendrik Buiter Willem Hendrik Buiter Willem Hendrik Buiter (born September 26, 1949]] was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000. He joined the London School of Economics as a chair in the European Institute in September 2005....

, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Robert Dugger, Duncan Foley, Thomas Ferguson

Thomas Ferguson (academic)

Thomas Ferguson is an American political scientist and author who studies and writes on politics and economics, often within a historical perspective. He is a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the advisory board for George Soros' Institute for...

, Roman Frydman

Roman Frydman

Roman Frydman is an American economist at New York University and the author of more than ten books treating macroeconomic theory and privatization.Frydman's research, exemplified by his two recent books with Michael D...

, Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin

Ian Andrew Goldin took up his most recent position as Director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, in September 2006. He is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford....

, Charles Goodhart

Charles Goodhart

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, Anatole Kaletsky

Anatole Kaletsky

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, John Kay

John Kay (economist)

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, Axel Leijonhufvud

Axel Leijonhufvud

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, Perry Mehrling

Perry Mehrling

Perry G. Mehrling is professor of economics at Barnard College in New York City. He specializes in the study of financial theory within the history of economics.- Life :Perry Gandhi Mehrling received his Ph.D. from Harvard University...

, Y.V. Reddy, Ken Rogoff, John Shattuck

John Shattuck

John Shattuck is an international legal scholar and human rights leader, became the fourth President and Rector of Central European University in August 2009. CEU is a global institution of graduate education in the social sciences, the humanities, law, business, environmental studies, government...

, William R. White

William R. White

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 and Yu Yongding.

Dr. Robert A. Johnson, former managing director of the hedge fund

Hedge fund

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Soros Fund Management is executive director of the institute.