Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
Germany’s debt brake and EU fiscal rules will make it well neigh impossible for EU countries to fund the investments needed to decarbonize their economies.
American Household Debt: A Reappraisal
Which households are more exposed to financial risk and to what extent is their debt systemically relevant?
The Dutch Earthquake
The Golden Age of AI Complementarity?
Recent developments in AI have added fuel to debates that have long simmered amongst economists, which could lead to a rethinking of economics itself.
Theories of Economic Crises
The theoretical approaches to analyzing crises have behind them contrasting conceptions of the way the economy works
Is Too Big to Fail Over?
What Has the World Learned from COVID-19? So Far, Not Nearly Enough
By all accounts infection rates have ebbed. But were we good or were we lucky?
How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
Inflation Narratives and Their Consequences
On the reflexive relationship between inflation and inflation narratives
Central Banks and Income Distribution: Does the Taylor Rule Push Up Rentier Incomes?
The effect of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income
Profit Inflation and Markups Once Again
Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion, responding to Servaas Storm