Articles

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

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Don't “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards

By William Lazonick

Feb 20, 2019

We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights

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Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 20, 2019

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Science and Subterfuge in Economics

By Jayati Ghosh

Feb 17, 2019

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How Imperfect Knowledge Shapes Financial Markets

By Nevin Cavusoglu, Michael Goldberg, and Josh Stillwagon

Feb 15, 2019

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Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look

By Shannon Monnat

Feb 14, 2019

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The Bogus Paper that Gutted Workers’ Rights

By Servaas Storm

Feb 6, 2019

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Millionaire-Driven Education Reform Has Failed. Here’s What Works.

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 31, 2019

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The Natural Rate of Interest Is Anything But

By Enrico Sergio Levrero

Jan 28, 2019

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The Hidden Decline in Human Capital—and the Danger Ahead

By Peter Temin

Jan 2, 2019

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Piketty's World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis

By James K. Galbraith

Jan 2, 2019

Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.

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Toxic Philanthropy? The Spirit of Giving While Taking

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 10, 2018

America’s new “philanthrocapitalists” are enabling social problems rather than solving them

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Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion

By Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm

Dec 5, 2018

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A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Semieniuk et al

By Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai

Dec 5, 2018

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Conditional Optimism: Economic Perspectives on Deep Decarbonization

By Michael Grubb

Dec 5, 2018

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A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Schröder and Storm

By Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm

Dec 5, 2018