Articles

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

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

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

Jul 11, 2019

Political risk—and what firms do about it

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The Myth of Expansionary Austerity

By Christian Breuer

Jul 8, 2019

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Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.

By Andrea Gabor

Jul 2, 2019

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After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 1, 2019

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How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy

Jun 27, 2019

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State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali

By Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker

Jun 26, 2019

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Capitalism’s Great Reckoning

By James K. Galbraith

Jun 24, 2019

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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 24, 2019

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Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis

By Shannon Monnat

Jun 20, 2019

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What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism

Jun 11, 2019

Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth

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The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India

By Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty

Jun 10, 2019

How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

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Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database

By Moritz Schularick

Jun 4, 2019

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Coding Private Money

By Katharina Pistor

Jun 3, 2019

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Modern Monetary Inevitabilities

By Robert Dugger

May 31, 2019

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INET at the Trento Economics Festival

By Institute Staff

May 30, 2019