Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Why Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicles Won't Avert Climate Crisis
Lance Taylor’s New INET Paper
How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF
The People’s Bank of China’s network of local currency swap arrangements provide Asian countries with a much-needed safety net, while also strengthening China’s diplomatic position.
“Young African People See No Clear Future for Themselves”
An interview with African development specialist Bara Guèye
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
The Full Case Against Ultra Low and Negative Interest Rates
There are several reasons why unprecedentedly low interest rates will probably not stimulate demand and may even threaten financial stability
The Standard Economic Paradigm is Based on Bad Modeling
The New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) is a straightjacket for macroeconomics
Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable
Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
The Future of Macroeconomics
Developments in the real economy have persistently challenged central tenets of older economic thinking, such as the supposed close connection between the money supply and inflation.
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.