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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
Young Scholars Want More Voices Heard in Economics
No one person or perspective holds the key to solving economic problems, says Jay Pocklington of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An Effective Response to Europe’s Fiscal Paralysis
Individual EU member states ought to issue perpetual bonds
Cybersecurity Expert: What the Media Miss on America’s Election Risks
David Mussington, a leading expert on cybersecurity, reveals what’s worrying him, from Facebook to foreign interference.
Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety at his hospital and was fired. He’s fighting back against a system that put profits over human life.
How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
New book by Sarah Chayes reveals the country’s descent into a level of corruption usually associated with places like Nigeria and Afghanistan
The Future of Work: What’s at Stake
INET explores how technological and economic changes are affecting employment
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Summary of the Book Macroeconomic Inequality From Reagan to Trump
Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Structural Change Caused Rising Macroeconomic Inequality for Fifty Years from before Reagan through Trump.This is a summary of a new book that is being published as part of a new book series with Cambridge University Press.
US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
Comment on Lance Taylor’s “’Savings Glut’ Fables and International Trade Theory: An Autopsy”
Reply to Andrew Smithers
Why International Financial Regulation Still Falls Short
Despite post-2008 regulations, the boom-bust credit cycle continues to run wild