Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects
Political risk—and what firms do about it
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism
Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth
The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India
How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality
Coding Private Money
Modern Monetary Inevitabilities
Socialism in Our Time?
Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”
U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair
Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.
Technology: From Copycats to Innovators
Richard Vague looks at what it’ll take for the U.S. to win the R&D race