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

Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Inflation and Power

Monetary Policy, Illiquidity, and the Inflation Debates
The key issue is the regulation of the liquidity of all financial markets, and not just that of the banking system

Bagehot on Money: A Bridge Between Bankers and Economists?
Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition

Is American Banking Safe? You Might Not Like The Answer from Two Fed Veterans
Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public from financial chaos

Theories of Economic Crises

What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)

Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?
The tech giant is in the hot seat, but it’s going to be a “big fight,” warns antitrust expert Mark Glick.

The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Antitrust Arguments “Chicago Style”
ProMarket and the Consumer Welfare Standard An output increase is not sufficient to increase welfare. Allocation—how goods are distributed—matters.

The Origins of the Investment Theory of Party Competition
Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule