Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
By pushing workers into precarious, part-time work, “Third Way” governments of the past 20 years helped to create the disturbing economic trend that’s vexing orthodox economists
When Demand Shapes Supply
Should You Buy Bitcoin?
How Pseudoscientific Rankings Are Distorting Research
The shocking—but illustrative—example of how an Italian government agency concocted statistics to evaluate scholarship, hid them from the public, and masqueraded them as science. It’s a growing phenomenon
How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement
Behind towering figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were the taxi dispatchers, pharmacists, grocers, and other small business owners who were instrumental in making civil rights a reality.
Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers
How Academic Conformity Punishes Women—and Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas
Skewed measures of “research output” hold back women who think differently or study smaller subfields in economics—and it’s harming the discipline as a whole
The Big Questions Are Back
What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?
Animal rights, child welfare, social equality are all a direct legacy of the “cult of feeling”
Protectionism Will Not Protect Jobs Anywhere
The same angst that Americans and Europeans have about the future of jobs is an order of magnitude higher in Asia.
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
Back-room deals on corporate tax reform won’t increase growth
We’ll Always Need Paris
Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
A new model probes why the US leads the world in jailing and imprisoning people, and what it will take to reverse course