Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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
Trade Liberalization After the U.S. Election
The TPP is dead, as is the assumption that future free-trade agreements can be negotiated by experts alone
Like Abusive Policing, Denial of Access to Mortgage Credit for Black Americans is a Growing Crisis
Black Americans remain second-class citizens in access to housing finance
Secular stagnation, bubbles and the legacy of the contraceptive pill
Oral contraception created a population that, today, is disproportionately inclined to save, resulting in low to negative real interest rates. Excess eurozone savings can only be accomodated by raising sovereign debt levels
Sex Uncensored
Why Can’t Economics See Race?
Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
William Darity, Jr. has a new key to unlocking the mystery of inequality: stratification economics.
Unemployment Insurance Extension During Great Recession Did Not Destroy Jobs
Social safety nets don’t always need to come with a dark side
Turner: Why Macroeconomic Policies are Failing
In a Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit Debate, Institute board chairman Adair Turner explains why extraordinary monetary policy isn’t working
VP Biden Cites Lazonick in Critique of Stock Buybacks
Vice President warns that corporate stock buybacks restrict America’s long-term prosperity, citing the research of Institute grantee William Lazonick who has long argued the same
The Private Debt Crisis
Who Has Space for Renewables?
Guardian’s Wisconsin investigation points to big money’s systemic distortion of U.S. democracy
Newspaper’s probe amplifies questions raised by our research into the impact of corporate donations onU.S. elections