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

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Does Nature Have Rights?

Aug 16, 2022

Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.

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Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?

May 31, 2022

Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work.

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Your Money and Your Life: Private Equity Blasts Ethical Boundaries of American Medicine

May 18, 2022

In a harrowing new book, scholar Laura Katz Olson pulls back the curtain on a shadowy Wall Street threat that is taking over health care companies – and preying on human lives.

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Top Economist: America’s Racist Economy Getting Worse, Not Better

Mar 8, 2022

Lynn Parramore explores Peter Temin’s new book on the country’s two economic histories: progress for whites, slavery and segregation for Black people. He warns of a second-tier global future unless they come together.

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Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?

Mar 4, 2022

President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off