Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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
Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs
Post-Chicago Economists vs. New Brandeisians on the New Merger Guidelines
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)
Labor Economist: AI May Bring a Boom in Horrible Jobs
Losing jobs isn’t the only thing workers have to worry about. AI may make many jobs worse.
The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
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
The Origins of the Investment Theory of Party Competition
Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule
Profit Inflation Is Real
We Owe an Apology to Adam Smith
Profit-Led Inflation Redefined: Response to Nikiforos and Grothe
Besides changes in institutions and social norms, other phenomena could explain a rise in the profit share.
Markups, Profit Shares, and Cost-Push-Profit-Led Inflation
To what extent is profit-led inflation compatible with what we know about the price-setting behavior of firms and income distribution?
Markets and Artificial Intelligence
What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?