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

Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.

Comment on Lance Taylor’s “’Savings Glut’ Fables and International Trade Theory: An Autopsy”
Financial commentator Andrew Smithers responds to Lance Taylor’s INET working paper. You may also read Taylor’s response to Smithers’s comment here.

Reply to Andrew Smithers
Lance Taylor responds to Andrew Smithers’s comment on his INET working paper, “Germany and China Have Savings Gluts, the USA Is a Sump: So What?”

The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect

Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.

Takyiwaa Manuh: Governments need to focus more on the gendered impacts of COVID-19
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Takyiwaa Manuh analyses how the pandemic has disproportionately affected women at different levels especially in Ghana, and describes why governments need to focus more strongly on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in both their sanitary and economic response.

OSHA in the 21st Century: Real Protection for America’s Workers
The Occupational Safety Health Administration was created 50 years ago. Today, it’s in dire straits, say OSHA’s leaders during the Obama administration

Why a V-Shaped Recession Is a Pipe Dream
Regardless of what Trump says, the economic pain of the pandemic isn’t going anywhere

How America’s Economy Runs on Racism
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains that pursuit of profit, not hatred of black people, is the real root of discrimination.
Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Policy Responses to the COVID19 Pandemic in Africa
Corona Crisis and Eurobonds

America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
John Ruskin helps shed light on what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it