The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford) produces cutting-edge research aimed at building a fair, sustainable, and prosperous economy.

INET Oxford is an interdisciplinary research institute based in the University of Oxford’s Martin School. The Institute is comprised of scholars from across the social and physical sciences who are pioneering new methods to better understand and address urgent real-world challenges such as the climate crisis, inequality, and technological change.

Founded in 2012, INET Oxford today is one of the world’s leading centres for innovative economic scholarship, policy development, and the training of students and postdoctoral researchers in new economic methods.

What makes us unique:

Pioneers in developing and applying new methods for understanding the economy
Focus on real world relevance and impact
Highly interdisciplinary
Empirically grounded
Unconstrained by orthodoxy

We measure our success via our impact on:

Scholarship
Public policy
Public debate
Training the next generation

People and research

INET Oxford has over 120 affiliated scholars from disciplines including economics, mathematics, computer science, physics, biology, ecology, geography, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, political science, public policy, business, and law. The Institute is the largest research centre in the University of Oxford’s Martin School, a community of scholars working on the major challenges of the 21st century.

We pursue research across eight thematic areas:

Funders

INET Oxford was founded in 2012 as the result of a grant by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a New York based philanthropic organisation created in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to promote innovative, policy-relevant economic research.

Our work is funded by a variety of sources including research councils, philanthropic foundations, governmental organisations, businesses, and individuals, as well as support from the Oxford Martin School and University of Oxford.