YSI brings together new economic thinkers across disciplines, cultures, and countries, to provide a community of mutual learning, understanding, and support.
YSI is an open space for ideas, a playground to explore new ways of thinking and conceiving economics.
The community encourages open debate, development, and spreading of new ideas.
YSI wishes to overcome intellectual divides by integrating various schools of economic thought, other disciplines, as well as the professional sphere into our inquiries. We aim to draw and learn from all existing traditions within and outside economics, in academia as well as in the professional realm.
YSI supports the study of neglected subjects and questions in current economic research, including but not limited to issues of power, environmental deprivation, radical uncertainty, ethics, distribution, and inequality.
YSI fosters a deeper understanding of the philosophy of economics and the history of economic thought in order to place economic questions in their historical and socio-political context and reconnect them with the real world.
The community promotes a more sensitive understanding of the underlying methods and assumptions that are made in research and how they impact results.
YSI provides support mechanisms along three lines:
A community of like-minded peers
Education, research and senior mentorship
The institutional support through the Institute for New Economic Thinking
YSI aims to bring more scholars onto the trajectory of becoming new economic thinkers
