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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
Summers and the Road to Damascus
Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?
An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality
YSI Successfully Holds Fifth and Final Regional Convening in Asia
An update from INET’s Young Scholars Initiative
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The Myth of Expansionary Austerity
It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.
Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database
Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found
Coding Private Money
The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now
Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT
Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone
Better Labor Standards Must Underpin the Future of Work
As technology and deregulation continue to shape the labor market, maintaining strong worker protections is as important as ever