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

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Rethinking Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy

May 19, 2025

Misaligned incentives account for many of the most troubling features of the pharmaceutical industry’s present practices and performance.

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Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?

Mar 24, 2025

Sara Wynn-Williams, defying Facebook’s attempts to silence her, reveals the company’s toxic culture and global damage, exposing unethical practices and a profit-at-any-cost approach. The key question she leaves us with: How can this be changed?

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The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve

Jan 13, 2025

Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not.

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Musk and Tesla: Corporate Compensation, Financialization, and the Problem of Strategic Control

Sep 13, 2024

From the perspective of innovative enterprise, we ask how Musk might abuse his power of strategic control—and what that would mean for corporate governance reform.