Articles

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

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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 22, 2019

“Facebook is undermining our country, our democracy.”

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U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair

By ​Orsola Costantini

Apr 19, 2019

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Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

By Dina Srinivasan

Apr 17, 2019

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How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades

By Servaas Storm

Apr 10, 2019

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A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You

By Clifton Mark

Apr 2, 2019

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INET to G20: Bank Regulation Can't Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose

By Thomas Ferguson

Mar 28, 2019

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Can Markets Corrode Relationships?

Mar 25, 2019

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Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part II

By ​Orsola Costantini and Giulia Zacchia

Mar 22, 2019

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Krishna Bharadwaj, the Torchbearer of Economics

By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

Mar 21, 2019

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Is MMT “America First” Economics?

By Gerald Epstein

Mar 20, 2019

Modern monetary theorists ignore how their policies could hurt developing countries

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Technology: From Copycats to Innovators

By Richard Vague

Mar 19, 2019

Richard Vague looks at what it’ll take for the U.S. to win the R&D race

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Populism, Trump, and the Future of Democracy

By Michael Sandel

Mar 15, 2019

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Better Labor Standards Must Underpin the Future of Work

By Richard Samans

Mar 14, 2019

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Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again

By Martin Wolf

Mar 12, 2019

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Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game

By Besiana Balla, Devika Dutt, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen, Lilian Rolim, and Reinhard Schumacher

Mar 11, 2019