Articles

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

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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

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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

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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

“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