Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
A Preface to Alessandro Roncaglia’s Essay on Adam Smith
As America marks 250 years of independence, Adam Smith is again being pressed into service as a founding myth. A deeper reading of The Wealth of Nations reveals a far richer thinker than today’s easy invocations of markets and liberty suggest.
The Fed, Congress, and the President: The Constitutional Authority to Make Money
The struggle over the Federal Reserve is not just a dispute about central bank independence. It is a constitutional conflict over democratic sovereignty itself: in a representative system, the power to make money belongs first to the legislature, not the executive.
Transforming Corporate Governance to Improve Access to Medicines in the Global South
Affordable medicines remain out of reach for millions because pharmaceutical innovation is organized around value extraction, not public health. How do shareholder-driven governance and fragmented global health financing reinforce inequity, and what structural reforms are needed to reverse it?