Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How the Crypto Hustle Carries on America’s Shameful History of Racial Inequality
Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.
Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.
Il faut une analyse désagrégée des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine sur les économies en Afrique de l’Ouest
Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur exécutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique: « Nous apportons des réponses de court terme à des problèmes de moyen-long terme »
Quels sont les problèmes à long terme qui doivent être résolus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?
Food Security in Africa: “We Are Bringing Short Term Responses to Long Term Problems”
What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): A Brief Assessment
Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act
How Inflation Reduction Became Export Promotion
Thomas Ferguson’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act
Does Nature Have Rights?
America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic – and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.
What Does Capitalism Repress? A Jungian Perspective.
Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.