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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?

Jun 12, 2025

In Capitalism and Its Critics, New Yorker writer John Cassidy brings to life the figures who warned of monopoly power, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism—forces still at work today. He discusses his book with Lynn Parramore.

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What the Economy Is Really For — And Why Tariffs Miss the Point

Apr 24, 2025

The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded at the top. Economist William Lazonick argues that this is not just unfair; it’s a failure of the whole economic system.

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“Founders Would Be Horrified”: Renowned Historian Drops Truth-Bomb on American Revolution and Lessons for Today

Apr 15, 2025

Professor Marc Egnal of York University joins the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Lynn Parramore to explore why historians cling to an inaccurate and misleading narrative, and what we can learn from the real history about tyranny, checks and balances, imperialism — and resistance.