Articles

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

Article

The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal

By Jayati Ghosh

Apr 28, 2020

A Template to Prevent a Global Debt Crisis?

Article

Patents vs. the Pandemic

By Joe Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, and Achal Prabhala

Apr 24, 2020

Article

The Political Economy of the French Pension System Reform(s)

By Matthieu Montalban

Apr 22, 2020

Article

Women Face Long-term Costs from Covid-19 Abortion Restrictions

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 20, 2020

Article

Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?

By Rosie Collington

Apr 16, 2020

Article

Europe and the Need for Multilateralism

By Damon Silvers, David Smith, Hans Eichel, Hugo Zsolt de Sousa, Jesús Caldera, Paul Magnette, Pier Carlo Padoan, and Stewart Wood

Apr 14, 2020

Article

Fatal Combination: Bailouts and Bank Rescues in Money-Driven Political Systems

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Apr 13, 2020

Article

In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19

By Antonella Stirati

Apr 7, 2020

Article

CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much

By Lance Taylor

Apr 6, 2020

Article

Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 6, 2020

Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

Article

Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data

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

Apr 2, 2020

The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries

Article

The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19

By Servaas Storm

Apr 1, 2020

Article

World War II to Covid-19: Been Here Before and Done Better

By Michael Best and John Bradley

Mar 27, 2020

Article

The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy

By Steven Fazzari

Mar 26, 2020

Article

Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy

By Lance Taylor

Mar 26, 2020