Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
Article | Business & Industry, Laws, Technology & Innovation
Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms Like Google
Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
Article | Agriculture, Development, Environment
Food Security in Africa: “This Crisis Has Shown the Limits to Africa’s Resilience”
“We risk a global decoupling in which East and West face off in a cold war, and Africans are caught in the middle,” says Professor Carlos Lopes in an interview with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
Article | Macroeconomics
Dollar Dominance is Financial Dominance
What Strategies can Break This Dependency?
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Muth’s Hypothesis Under Knightian Uncertainty
By Roman Frydman and Morten Tabor
Webinars and Events | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
Global Inflation Today: What Is to Be Done?
Article | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
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Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged.
Featuring Dean Baker
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
A Novel Account of Inflation Forecasts
By Roman Frydman and Morten Tabor
Working Paper | Energy, Environment, Government & Politics
Moving away from fossil fuels, towards a system with a far greater contribution from variable renewables, means that the current system is not fit for purpose.
By Michael Grubb and Drummond Pike
Working Paper | Development, Macroeconomics
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
Working Paper | Environment
Price Inflation, Marginal Cost Pricing, and Principles for Electricity Market Redesign in an Era of Low-Carbon Transition
Working Paper | Development
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
By Yin Li and William Lazonick
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.
By Rosemary Batt, Eileen Appelbaum, and Tamar Katz
Nov 28, 2022
Webinars and Events
The 5th edition of the Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC) is jointly organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, INET and FLAME University.
Nov 17, 2022
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Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
Sep 22, 2022
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Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
Jun 13, 2022
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Can society continue its long-run trajectory and commit to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can advance equality?
Mar 10, 2022
Webinars and Events
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
Feb 03, 2022
Webinars and Events
Against the backdrop of frequent calls for debt cancellation and reorganization, the Private Debt Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking is convening a conference on “Debt Restructuring” in New York City on Thursday, February 3rd and Friday February 4th, 2022, hosted by Richard Vague (Secretary of Banking and Securities, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), Rob Johnson (INET President), and Moritz Shularick (INET Fellow).
