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

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What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?

Apr 21, 2026

AI surveillance and algorithmic management threaten worker autonomy and dignity. It’s time for a rethinking of rights. Part of “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work.

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America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays

Feb 9, 2026

Health researcher Steven H. Woolf tells INET’s Lynn Parramore why making Americans healthy again means economic policies that help working- and middle-class families. Raw raw milk won’t cut it, and even being rich won’t save you. *This is Part 2 of the interview; Part 1 is here.

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AI, Antitrust, and the Future of the Marketplace of Ideas

Nov 17, 2025

AI was sold as a tool to broaden the marketplace of ideas. Instead, a handful of platforms now control how truth travels, shaping what we see, starving journalism, and locking new AI rivals out of the data democracy needs to survive.

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Red Tech and American Politics: Nick French Interviews Thomas Ferguson

Nov 11, 2025

Venture-backed “tech capital” is reshaping U.S. politics through campaign finance, platform gatekeeping, defense/AI procurement, and policy entrepreneurship. In an interview with Nick French, INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses these channels of influence, examining their macro-distributional consequences, and outlining guardrails to restore democratic accountability and broadly shared gains.

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Drug Price Wars: What Can Really Tame Big Pharma?

Oct 14, 2025

Here’s the breakdown on what’s really driving America’s runaway drug prices — and whether any of the current plans stand a chance to lower your pharmacy bill.

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Bretton Woods: A System That Can’t Be Fixed—But Can Be Made Fairer and More Effective

Oct 13, 2025

The IMF and World Bank can no longer function as instruments that discipline some member countries while deferring to others. Their challenge is to transform the exercise of power among member countries into a framework of mutual respect and cooperation.

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Economists Warn: Trump’s Intel Move Looks Like Performance, Not Policy

Aug 26, 2025

Two economists who have studied Intel warn that Trump’s move to take a stake in the company amounts to flashy optics, incoherent strategy, and a creeping politicization of economic policy.