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Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids
The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
During WWII FDR mobilized private manufacturers to support the war effort. To keep Americans healthy, we need to do the same now for medical equipment
William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future
As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.
INET Video
Stuck at home and already bored of Netflix? Then check out our #LearnEconAtHome series of video explainers you can watch from anywhere.
Quarantine or not, it can be hard to stay connected, but INET’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is here for this generation’s new economic thinkers.
Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution
Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics
In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.
Is America facing a retirement crisis?
Inequality, in many ways, may be the biggest question of our times. And yet it is a topic that is still underexplored in conventional economics curricula.
The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police
Anwar Shaikh talks about the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and alternative frameworks
Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.
Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.
Working Paper Series
As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, this paper finds that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains
This paper considers the ambition, scale, substance and strategy of the European Union’s Green Deal
Private equity firms have become major players in the healthcare industry. How has this happened and what are the results?
This article proposes a new “Concentric Circle framework” which would improve workers’ access to civil, labor, and employment rights.
New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade
We conclude that representing dynamic realism in such models is as important as – and far more empirically tractable than – continued debate about the monetization of climate damages and ‘social cost of carbon’.
The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution
To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology
This paper argues that it is a mistake to dismiss secular demand stagnation as main cause of declining potential growth in the OECD.
This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy.
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.