Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution
Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires.
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
Less capital, more risk, familiar consequences. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
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Article | Health
Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
Introduced by the AMA in 2001, Category III CPT codes aimed to streamline financial reporting. Instead they became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game.
By Ekaterina Cleary and Leeza Osipenko
Article | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Authors Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that declining public confidence in government and financial institutions is putting the U.S. economy in peril — and a crisis could come faster than you think.
Article | Energy, Environment, Technology & Innovation
Affordability of electricity and concerns about fossil fuel pollution, water resources, and job loss, have driven a rebellion against data centers that is both grassroots and bipartisan. Its time for cleaner, faster and cheaper, solutions.
By Joseph Romm
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Article | Culture, Technology & Innovation
Failed State, Failed Market: Europe’s Bid to Reprice Social Media Harms
By Pia Malaney
Article | Government & Politics, Health
America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays
Article | Government & Politics, Health
Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State
INET in Focus
Article | Economics Profession, Philosophy & Ethics
5 Lessons from the End of the Larry Summers Era
Summers’ influence was immense, but so were his blind spots. It’s time for economics that values people and the planet over power and prestige.
Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Technology & Innovation
Red Tech and American Politics: Nick French Interviews Thomas Ferguson
Article | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
INET Warned Over 2 Years Ago: Spending by the Wealthy Is Distorting the Economy
Working Paper | Finance, Macroeconomics
Will the New European Fiscal Rules Raise the Debt-to-GDP Ratio? An Analysis of the Italian Case
Investigations into the possible effects of the fiscal consolidations required under the new European fiscal rules on Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio find that the new governance framework may lead to the pro-cyclical tightening, weaker growth and adverse debt dynamics that characterized earlier phases of EU fiscal governance.
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Finance, Macroeconomics, Technology & Innovation
The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
Storm argues the AI data-centre investment boom is creating a bubble that will be socially and financially expensive when it pops.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Trade
The Flawed Welfare Foundations of Pro-Free Trade Arguments
The argument that free trade is always the correct policy is based on a flawed welfare analysis. Free trade results in winners and losers and economists are not competent to analyze the impact on well-being as a whole or the spillover social consequences of the discontent of the losers.
By Mark Glick and Gabriel Lozada
Working Paper | Government & Politics, History
Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition
INET’s new data archive of historical political finance records at the National Archives marks a major step toward filling this factual void. This INET Working Paper outlines what users need to know to navigate the archive effectively and locate the data they require.
Dec 08, 2025
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Jul 14, 2025
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The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
The urgency of the climate crisis cannot be overstated, particularly given its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities in the Global South.
May 31, 2025
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The End of Globalization? With Paul Krugman
Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have? How will U.S.-European trade relations evolve? What about the confrontation with China?
Apr 10, 2025
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