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

How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare
The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.

America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

Long-Term Unemployment Is Reversible
Contrary to the New Keynesian paradigm, long-term unemployment can be reversed without a significant uptick in inflation

Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse

New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools Could be Dangerous
School re-opening push based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence

To Fight Climate Change, Save Energy and Reduce Inequality
The IPCC was correct in emphasizing the need for early mitigation, but their analysis of possible growth trajectories appears to be faulty.

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone
“We’re building a data system, because you can’t really manage a city if you don’t know who’s there and what’s in it.”
The Big Squeeze


Mainstream Economists Have Been Using a Misleading Inflation Model for 60 Years
Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation

Carlos Lopes: The COVID-19 Crisis Presents Major Opportunities for Africa’s Structural Transformation
In this interview, Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé speak with Carlos Lopes, Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London