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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Trade and Development Backstory: The Struggle Over the UNCTAD 15 Mandate
Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.
Globalization and Its Big Data: The Historical Record in Financial Markets
In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources
Welcome to the Emergency Room. A Wall Street Honcho Will Decide Your Treatment.
Doctors and medical experts say private equity firms and profiteering corporations are putting American lives at risk and compromising the practice of medicine.
How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
Autos and the European Union: Another Crash?
In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.
Productive Bubbles
The One-Earth Balance Sheet
Could Modern Crises Stem from Problems in the Human Brain?
As a pandemic continues to expose weaknesses in our human systems and institutions, psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist’s proposition that a battle in our heads is impacting the direction of our future is worth revisiting.
New Ecuadorian Government Teams Up with Powerful International Lobbies to Rejoin Investment Treaties Prohibited by the Constitution
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians
Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
What That Means For Biden’s Inflation Policy Trilemma
What Bagehot Means for 21st Century Central Bankers
Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?
Restoring Public Good — Now and for the Future
Restoring faith in governance and public action is itself a public good that would prepare us for a whole myriad of challenges on the horizon