Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis
There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.
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
Socialism in Our Time?
Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT
Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”
Is MMT “America First” Economics?
Modern monetary theorists ignore how their policies could hurt developing countries
Technology: From Copycats to Innovators
Richard Vague looks at what it’ll take for the U.S. to win the R&D race
Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?
Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes housing and what economists have in common with city planners