Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Are You Ready to Dive Deep into China's Intellectual Odyssey?
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China’s intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.
Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
Inflation and Power
It was a mistake to accept a ‘reference price’-determination process for basic commodities led by finance
American Household Debt: A Reappraisal
Which households are more exposed to financial risk and to what extent is their debt systemically relevant?
Renowned Political Scientist: Can We Really Save American Democracy?
In an exclusive interview, Benjamin Page discusses urgent reforms needed to tackle critical challenges, from undemocratic institutions to economic inequality.
Theories of Economic Crises
The theoretical approaches to analyzing crises have behind them contrasting conceptions of the way the economy works
After Poland’s Elections: Democracy and Keynesianism?
In accepting mass unemployment, post-communist governments and the democratic parties that constituted them removed the economic foundation for Poland’s democracy.
Is Too Big to Fail Over?
How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
Postscript: A Further Look at ProMarket’s Economics
ProMarket’s new “Addendum to Retraction,” written it appears in response to our recent INET post, doubles down on its critique of our piece which showed that it is feasible for increased output to lead to reduced welfare. The ProMarket addendum is notable for its economic errors.*
Central Banks and Income Distribution: Does the Taylor Rule Push Up Rentier Incomes?
The effect of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income