Articles

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

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

By Shannon Monnat

Jun 20, 2019

There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.

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What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism

Jun 11, 2019

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

By Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty

Jun 10, 2019

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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

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Socialism in Our Time?

May 21, 2019

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Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

May 16, 2019

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Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

By Mark Glick

May 2, 2019

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

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Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT

By Lance Taylor

Apr 30, 2019

Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.

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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 22, 2019

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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