Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The Economics of the 2021 American Rescue Plan
How to Get Relief to Those Who Need It. Gosia Glinska in Conversation with Anton Korinek
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.”
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
The Big Squeeze
Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
Mainstream Economists Have Been Using a Misleading Inflation Model for 60 Years
Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation
Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID
Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations
"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.
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
An Effective Response to Europe’s Fiscal Paralysis
Individual EU member states ought to issue perpetual bonds
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.
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.