The Institute for New Economic Thinking is pleased to announce that its third annual plenary conference will take place in Berlin from April 12 to 14, 2012. The conference, entitled “Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics," will take place in the Axica Conference Center adjacent to the world famous Brandenburg Gate.

About 300 scholars, students, policy makers, and journalists will convene in the eye of the European economic hurricane to reconsider conventional economic thinking. The challenges posed by inequality, unemployment, climate change, and global financial disarray call for new economic thinking that is open, credible, and relevant in the current world; that offers vision amid uncertainty, and fosters cooperation where there is fragmentation.

The entire conference will be broadcast on INET's website. INET will film everything and upload it to the web along with slides and conference papers.

The conference is organized in conjunction with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).