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

What A Green Monetary Policy Could Look Like
Central banks can encourage climate-friendly investments by offering financial institutions favorable haircuts on green collateral

Gun Money Predicts Congressional Voting Better Than Party Alone
An analysis of gun lobby contributions to Republicans and Democrats

Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this ministerial than is generally known.

How Economics Found Science …and Lost its Subject Matter
Re-evaluating the “equality-efficiency” trade-off

Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. New: A reply to critics

Our Economic System is Making Us Mentally Ill
The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?

Paper: Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs
Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs

How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism

Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
In a new book, How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines the influence of stories on stock market outcomes in an uncertain world.

Introducing the Novelty-Narrative Hypothesis
A new view of stock market instability under Knightian uncertainty