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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
Why it’s time to repeal the debt ceiling and replace it with a ‘truth in borrowing’ act
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How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation
The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators
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Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987, computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking. Automation has eliminated many jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence now seem to promise (or threaten) yet more radical change. Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.