We are thrilled to announce that Economic Questions will serve the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) as its community blog.
YSI, an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is a global community over graduate students, young professionals and researchers. YSI envisions economic thinking that is free of intellectual barriers, resonates with reality, and serves our global society.
To advance towards this mission, YSI is building a research community without the intellectual barriers that had stifled the economics discipline; a playground of ideas. Its members have never set a definition for New Economic Thinking. Instead, they are committed to a special approach: one in which economics is defined by the questions it seeks to answer, not by the method or analytical tool applied.
Members of YSI explore their questions in collaborative projects, such as workshops, conferences and online webinars. Participating in YSI projects provides the opportunity to develop one’s research interests, create partnerships with institutions in their field, and form lasting relationships; key ingredients to flourish as a new economic thinker.
With this approach, YSI has grown to one of the most important early career networks in the field. With 10000 members in 125 countries, the community now reaches far and wide. As of early 2020, YSI has 150 projects running across 21 working groups, each focusing on a different set of questions.
In a community where there is so much activity, and so many young scholars coming together, there is a vast amount of stories to be heard, experiences to be shared, and insights to be exchanged. With short articles on YSI’s members and activities, this is what economic questions will help to facilitate.
For those of you who are new to YSI, welcome to the community! If you are interested, you are invited to register on ysi.ineteconomics.org, and to explore the working groups and the projects they are doing.
For those of you who are already a part of YSI, welcome to Economic Questions! Please let us know what content you would be interested in seeing, if you have ideas you’d like to contribute, or new economic thinkers that you’d like us to feature. Feel free to comment on the articles, or contact us directly at contact@economicquestions.org