Articles

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

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Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now

By ​Gonçalo Fonseca

Oct 20, 2017

What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?

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What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 20, 2017

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Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?

By Perry G. Mehrling

Oct 14, 2017

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“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 10, 2017

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America’s Rising, Invisible Debt

By Robert Dugger and Daniel Blitz

Oct 6, 2017

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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 5, 2017

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Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us

By Anamaria Lopez

Sep 12, 2017

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Political Economy, Technocracy, and the New Gilded Age

By Demetri Kofinas

Aug 28, 2017

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Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks

By Thomas Ferguson

Aug 24, 2017

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Surprise: The 1% Is Overrepresented in the Ivy League

By Jack Gao

Aug 11, 2017

New research shows that access to elite colleges varies by parents’ income—reinforcing inequality across generations 

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Economic Models That Are Costing Us All

By Alex Izurieta

Aug 11, 2017

When an economic model fails, it is reality—and the people living in it—who pay the bills while the model lives on, unscathed.

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Protectionism Will Not Protect Jobs Anywhere

By Kenneth Rogoff

Aug 7, 2017

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Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing

By Joe Stiglitz

Aug 1, 2017

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How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation

By William Lazonick

Jul 31, 2017

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Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?

By Adair Turner

Jul 21, 2017