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

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Charles Kindleberger, the Dollar System, and Financial Crises

Feb 17, 2025

A review of Perry Mehrling’s book, Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System, and an exploration Mehrling’s discussion of the 1982 correspondence between Charles Kindleberger and Ben Bernanke examining their theories concerning financial crises.

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Political Investments

Dec 17, 2024

An interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election conducted by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod and Tim Barker for Phenomenal World

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Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?

Oct 31, 2024

In his new book, Mindless, acclaimed economic historian Robert Skidelsky urges readers to pause and reflect on the delicate balance between advancing technology and our human essence.

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Climate Change and Macroeconomic Models: Why General Equilibrium Models Do Not Work

Oct 28, 2024

The limitations of the benchmark E-DSGE framework and how these limitations restrict the ability of this framework to meaningfully capture the macroeconomics of the climate crisis.