Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Carbon Dividends: The Bipartisan Key to Climate Policy?
The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them
Trumping Capitalism?
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America's Crisis
Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand
Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers
From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics
Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State
Evidence thus far questions the assumption that robotics are eliminating jobs. INET Senior Vice President for Programs Rick McGahey says the UBI debate should focus on the long-term weakening of labor’s bargaining power
A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions
Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path
Inequality in the United States: A Darkening Horizon
Institute for New Economic Thinking-backed research into inequality explores how taxes and government policy have contributed to deepening economic inequality
Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty
In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world
Capitalism in the Time of Trump?
Stiglitz: Democratic Party Needs New Economic Thinking
Nobel laureate argues that the party’s adherence to neoliberal orthodoxy has hurt its prospects
Rapid Money Supply Growth Does Not Cause Inflation
Neither do rapid growth in government debt, declining interest rates, or rapid increases in a central bank’s balance sheet
Why is Economics Still Largely a White Male Preserve?
How economics underperforms in diversity, and some potential remedies