Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better
To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.
Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa
An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town
Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019
Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.
Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
AI is Forcing Us to Rethink Economics
INET’s grantees and Commission on Global Economic Transformation are looking at artificial intelligence and society.
State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali
Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.
Coding Private Money
Modern Monetary Inevitabilities
Socialism in Our Time?
One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t
Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us
Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why
Can Markets Corrode Relationships?
Kristen Ghodsee discusses her research on how love and relationships function under socialism and capitalism, and what economists miss about the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe