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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987, computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking. Automation has eliminated many jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence now seem to promise (or threaten) yet more radical change. Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.
We’ll Always Need Paris
e-Book Launch: Can Dependency Theory Explain Our World Today?
Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) has released a new e-book, “Conversations on Dependency Theory”
The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Why some goods and services should stay in the public domain
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds
Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
“The humility to accept that economic propositions cannot be universal would save us from self-defeating arrogance.” Economist Amit Bhaduri adds his perspective to our Experts on Trial discussion.
The Moral Burden on Economists
Which Productivity Puzzle?
The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences
In the age of Adam Smith, an economics that masqueraded as natural science and excluded the human condition actually suited the interests of the landed and the wealthy
Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book
China’s Weapons of Trade War
Euroland: Will the Netherlands be the next domino to fall?
Austerity has nurtured resentments that will likely make the populist right PVV the biggest winner in the March 15 election — but without the majority or the allies needed to govern
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