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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange

Aug 5, 2025

Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven development in place.

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What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?

Jun 12, 2025

In Capitalism and Its Critics, New Yorker writer John Cassidy brings to life the figures who warned of monopoly power, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism—forces still at work today. He discusses his book with Lynn Parramore.

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Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue

Jun 2, 2025

In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financial markets.