Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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
Populism, Trump, and the Future of Democracy
The most popular political philosopher of his generation on liberal responsibility worldwide for the rise of the hard right
Fighting for Gender Equality in Economics Is Not Nearly Enough
The field of economics is aggressively sexist and biased against new and unconventional ideas. Revelations about gender and ethnic discrimination show the need to reorient the whole system toward more freedom, respect, openness, and pluralism. But how?
Sex, Power, and the Perils of Economic Writing
For women discussing economics, it’s still easier to be seen than heard
The Natural Rate of Interest Is Anything But
Central bankers pursue a “neutral” rate that doesn’t exist