Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Is Wall Street Doing its Job?
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
A Global Marshall Plan for Joblessness?
The corrosive social and economic effects of what have now become ‘normal’ unemployment levels require new solutions, and tradewithout full employment exacerbates the problem
Helicopter Money on a Leash?
Any use of money-financed fiscal expansion as a policy tool will require rules to ensure discipline and avoid excess
When Economists Attack
How Gerald Friedman’s assessment of Bernie Sanders economic proposals prompted a rare public political spat among economists.
The Road not Taken
Axel Leijonhufvud showed economists a promising path forward. They should have taken it. Leijonhufvud passed away on May 5, 2022
In EU budget debates, ‘technocratic’ veil hides political choices
As the European Union Commission readies itself for a new round of budgetary recommendations, INET senior economist Orsola Costantini warns that that the debate over how those harsh fiscal constraints are to be determined is based on a formula that masks political choices as technocratic imperatives.
Three Questions with John Eric Humphries
John Eric Humphries is a member of the Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP) network and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is the co-author of the book, The Myth of Achievement Tests, The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, along with James J. Heckman and Tim Kautz. Humphries is also a 2013 alum of the Summer School on Socieconomic Inequality.
Liquidity Trap & Excessive Leverage
How excessive debt hurts the economy and why to curb it.
Marcello de Cecco (1939-2016)
Paying tribute to one of the world’s most distinguished economic historians.
The China Delusion
Professional Expertise or Politics Driving Economists’ View of Hillary and Bernie?
Bullet-point financial reform proposals are either too simple or too vague.