Articles
A collection of INET’s research and articles on race and the US economy, reposted in connection with recent protests against police brutality in Black communities.
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The Fed is taking an aggressive approach to put out the economic fires of the pandemic. But it needs to allow for flexibility as some business models irreparably change.
The Occupational Safety Health Administration was created 50 years ago. Today, it’s in dire straits, say OSHA’s leaders during the Obama administration
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Takyiwaa Manuh analyses how the pandemic has disproportionately affected women at different levels especially in Ghana, and describes why governments need to focus more strongly on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in both their sanitary and economic response.
The activist and author shares a free-ranging conversation with INET president Rob Johnson.
COVID has meant unemployment for the many and a corporate profit-fueled windfall for the few.
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
Regardless of what Trump says, the economic pain of the pandemic isn’t going anywhere
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.
Abstract, “basic science” research is essential to drug discovery. It is also largely funded by the public sector.
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains that pursuit of profit, not hatred of black people, is the real root of discrimination.
Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11
Darrick Hamilton calls for spreading the benefits of asset-ownership to all Americans.
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“We do not publish papers about our own profession.” – Top Five Journal
By not addressing inclusivity, we are losing entire generations of new minds.
What counts as work and what doesn’t?
Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use of force against black communities
The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable.
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Emil Verner discusses his research into credit markets, and the role of economics in the rise of populism.
If a tree falls outside of the market sector, does it make a sound?
Economists have gone to great lengths to write humans out of economics, pushing self-interest and generally providing two choices—faith in markets or the state.
Economist Emmanuel Saez explains how inequality is destroying society.
Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics
Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution
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.
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.
Working Paper Series
Rising inequality has focused attention on the benefits of new technologies. Do these accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?
In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.
The popular discontent and rise of ‘populist’ political parties is closely related to the failure of New Labor to navigate social democracy’s dilemma.
This Working Paper presents three separate comments on Servaas Storm’s “The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration”. The first is by Joseph Halevi and Peter Kriesler; the second is by Duncan Foley; and the third is by Thomas Ferguson.
Increased borrowing by middle-class families with low income growth played a central role in rising indebtedness
We reveal a novel channel through which market participants’ sentiment influences how they forecast stock returns: their optimism (pessimism) affects the weights they assign to fundamentals.
This paper analyzes regional contributions to the US payroll share from 1977 to 2017 and the four major business cycles throughout this period.
This paper considers the relationship between profits realized from higher insulin list prices, pharmaceutical innovation, and the financial structures of the three dominant insulin manufacturing companies, which set list prices.
The links between campaign contributions from the financial sector and switches to a pro-bank vote were direct and substantial
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