Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Comment on Lance Taylor’s “’Savings Glut’ Fables and International Trade Theory: An Autopsy”
Financial commentator Andrew Smithers responds to Lance Taylor’s INET working paper. You may also read Taylor’s response to Smithers’s comment here.
Professor Njuguna Ndung’u: COVID-19 is a wake-up call to reform the healthcare system and make it inclusive for all
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Njuguna Ndung’u, a Kenyan economist, Director of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a pan-African organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in sub-Saharan Africa, and former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (2007-2015) analyses how the pandemic creates more fragility in African economies, but also how reforms could be implemented during this crisis; and the urgent need for investment in strong health institutional capacities
The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect
The COVID-19 Bailout and its Financing Dilemmas
The speed and duration of COVID-19 economic recovery will depend on how the government will finance emergency programs.
Takyiwaa Manuh: Governments need to focus more on the gendered impacts of COVID-19
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.
If You Want Justice for Black Americans, You Have to Fix This
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.
Why a V-Shaped Recession Is a Pipe Dream
Regardless of what Trump says, the economic pain of the pandemic isn’t going anywhere
Corona Crisis and Eurobonds
Indian Economic Policy: Stimulus, Deficits and Privatisation
Over five phased announcements last week, the Indian government set in motion an unprecedented fiscal stimulus. Gaurav Dalmia looks at India’s near-term economic challenges and offers a prescription on how privatisation can help India achieve its objectives.
America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
John Ruskin helps shed light on what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it
Chile’s Outburst of Discontent
The Eurozone in Crisis