Articles

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

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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego

By Institute Staff

Jan 16, 2020

The AEA and the Crisis of Expertise

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Free Market or Socialism: Have Economists Really Anything to Say?

By Andrea Attar and Thomas Mariotti

Jan 14, 2020

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Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead

By Malcolm Sawyer

Jan 13, 2020

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The 2020 Election in Three Graphs

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Jan 10, 2020

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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 3, 2020

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Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy

By Sheila Dow

Dec 19, 2019

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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

Dec 15, 2019

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The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency

By Damon Silvers, David Smith, Hans Eichel, Hugo Zsolt de Sousa, and Stewart Wood

Dec 13, 2019

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Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 12, 2019

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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

By William Lazonick, Öner Tulum, Matt Hopkins, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Ken Jacobson

Dec 2, 2019

Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.

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Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry

By Edward J. Kane

Nov 26, 2019

Repeat after me: How much pipe should Fed plumbers lay if Fed plumbers like to lay pipe?

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The Decline of the US Labor Share Across Sectors

By Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, and Rudi von Arnim

Nov 21, 2019

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How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 19, 2019

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WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better

Nov 7, 2019

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The Stormy Birth of “Europe”

By Joseph Halevi

Nov 7, 2019