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

Mortgage Fraud Fueled the Financial Crisis—and Could Again
Both before 2008 and today, there’s a disturbing tendency in Washington to not take mortgage fraud seriously

The Zero-Sum Economy
The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income and status. But the deeper problem is that more and more economic activity performs a merely distributive function.

The Mechanics of Cryptocurrency
INET Global Commissioner Peter Bofinger breaks down cryptocurrencies, and why they’re actually far from “anonymous”