Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Developing Asia Needs a New Economic Paradigm
Inadequate demand and climate change require a global green new deal
After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.
The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick
How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy
With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world
Coding Private Money
Modern Monetary Inevitabilities
For all the talk of Modern Monetary Theory representing a brave new frontier, it is easy to forget that the United States has gone down this road before, when the US Federal Reserve financed the war effort in the 1940s. Then, as now, the question is not about government debt, but about the debt’s purpose and justification.
INET at the Trento Economics Festival
A collection of our research on populism, globalization and nationalism
A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.
INET to G20: Bank Regulation Can't Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
At a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees
Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game
As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.
Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part I
INET talks to Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Claudia Goldin, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy