Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Are Economists in Denial About What's Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
Today’s richest Americans may soon blow past the tycoons of the Roaring Twenties. Lance Taylor explains why, and what to do about it.
The Gift of Deregulation
Renminbi to the Rescue?
With the RMB in the SDR, careful progression in China could balance the international monetary system.
How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
Can education stop the country’s backward slide?
Will Spain Reject Austerity?
To Fix Inequality and Steady the Economy, Think Radically
Sometimes a radical path is the most practical way out of a mess.
$1.90 Per Day: What Does it Say?
The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a standard for identifying who is poor and who is not that is consistent and meaningful.
Travelling Knowledge and Tools
News about a wonderful workshop, “Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts”
Why Carried Interest is Suddenly the Inequality Flashpoint
A little-understood rule in the tax code is making headlines. What’s all the fuss?
China’s stock market crash reveals financial policy tensions
The unprecedented intervention by China’s authorities to backstop China’s stock market reveals widening policy tensions in China’s leaderships financial reform agenda.