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

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.

Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
On the occasion of the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (Jan. 3-5), Peter Bofinger presents a “10 Best of” Mankiw list

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.

The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.

The Promise and Limits of Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.

Is This Time Different? Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots
A summary of INET’s latest Future of Work episode

Mossadeck Bally, CEO Azalaï Hotels Group : « Le secteur privé africain doit faire partie intégrante des plans de relance économique »
Dans le cadre de cet entretien, Mr. Mossadeck Bally, C.E.O, Azalai Hotels Group et membre du GRAIN (Groupe de Réflexion, d’Actions et d’Initiatives Novatrices) revient sur les impacts économiques de la pandémie du COVID-19 sur son groupe hôtelier, le rôle du secteur privé malien dans le plan de relance économique, l’emploi des jeunes et les solutions qui doivent être apportées à la crise politique au Mali.

How Important is the Unemployment Rate for the Wage Rate?
Persistent changes in unemployment have lasting consequences for income distribution

How Bankers Hide Losses
Like master illusionists, bank accountants conceal losses from federal regulators, putting the whole economy at risk

Professor Kako Nubukpo: COVID-19 Shows that Global Value Chains Shouldn’t Keep Africa in Chains of Dependence
During this interview, Professor Kako Nubukpo, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lomé, Togo and former Minister of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policy of Togo considers the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its repercussions on monetary policy and fiscal reforms underway in West and Central Africa today.