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  1. Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa

    By Institute Staff

    Sep 9, 2019

    An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town

  2. How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas

    Featuring Binyamin Appelbaum and Rob Johnson

    Aug 28, 2019

    The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right

  3. A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?

    By Lynn Parramore

    Jul 30, 2019

    Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot

  4. Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

    By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

    Jul 11, 2019

    Political risk—and what firms do about it

  5. Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard

    By Mark Glick

    Jul 16, 2019

    The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy

  6. Working Paper Series

    American Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust

    By Mark Glick

    Jul 2019

    The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.

  7. State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali

    By Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker

    Jun 26, 2019

    Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development

  8. The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India

    By Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty

    Jun 10, 2019

    How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

  9. Socialism in Our Time?

    By Aaron Freedman

    May 21, 2019

    One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t

  10. INET at the Trento Economics Festival

    By Institute Staff

    May 30, 2019

    A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism

  11. Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?

    Featuring Trent Reasons and Til Schuermann

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  12. Outlook Session: How much debt is too much?

    Featuring Karen Dynan, Jan Hatzius, and Adair Turner

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  13. Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT

    By Lance Taylor

    Apr 30, 2019

    Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.

  14. Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

    By Mark Glick

    May 2, 2019

    The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy