Articles

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

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Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health

By James Boyce

Feb 20, 2020

Freeing ourselves from reliance on fossil fuels is not only good for the planet and future generations. It also saves lives here and now, not just in the far future.

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The New Hampshire Democratic Primary in One Graph

By Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, and Paul Jorgensen

Feb 12, 2020

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Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 11, 2020

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Modeling Myths of Climate Change

By Michael Grubb and Claudia Wieners

Feb 10, 2020

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A Money View of Keynes, Keynesians, and Post-Keynesians

By Perry G. Mehrling

Feb 4, 2020

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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?

By William Lazonick

Jan 31, 2020

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Demand-Side Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth

By Servaas Storm

Jan 30, 2020

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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego

By Institute Staff

Jan 16, 2020

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Free Market or Socialism: Have Economists Really Anything to Say?

By Andrea Attar and Thomas Mariotti

Jan 14, 2020

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The 2020 Election in Three Graphs

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Jan 10, 2020

The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object?

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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 3, 2020

A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics

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Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy

By Sheila Dow

Dec 19, 2019

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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

Dec 15, 2019

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The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency

By Damon Silver, David Smith, Hans Eichel, Hugo Zsolt de Sousa, and Stewart Wood

Dec 13, 2019

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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

By William Lazonick, Öner Tulum, Matt Hopkins, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Ken Jacobson

Dec 2, 2019