Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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
Science and Subterfuge in Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith noted in 1973 that establishment economics had become the “invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public.” If anything, economists’ embrace of that role has grown stronger since then.
Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Semieniuk et al
Hope for mitigating climate catastrophe may not be lost, but the scale of political change needed is no cause for optimism
Cheap Talk on Race and Xenophobia Keeps Americans from Confronting Economic and Political Peril
Adolph Reed, who researches race and politics, warns that “identitarian” politics can conceal the structural inequities of capitalism
Big Money—Not Political Tribalism—Drives US Elections
Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
Joseph Stiglitz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Social and Economic Justice
A Nobel Prize-winning economist and the second-most-famous democratic socialist in America sit down together