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

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Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive

Jul 13, 2023

By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems

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Profit-Led Inflation Redefined: Response to Nikiforos and Grothe

Jun 6, 2023

Besides changes in institutions and social norms, other phenomena could explain a rise in the profit share.

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Markups, Profit Shares, and Cost-Push-Profit-Led Inflation

Jun 6, 2023

To what extent is profit-led inflation compatible with what we know about the price-setting behavior of firms and income distribution?

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Should We Focus on the Problems of the Elite, or Those Faced by the Majority of the African Population?

Apr 20, 2023

Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.

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Shifting Downward: How a Change in Fed Culture Hurt Bank Supervision

Mar 27, 2023

The explanation of systematic breakdowns in supervisory oversight over time must include the shift in Federal Reserve culture during and after the 1990s

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Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization

Feb 28, 2023

Cisco’s turn from innovation to financialization and what it means for the competitive position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry