Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019
Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.
Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs
AI is Forcing Us to Rethink Economics
INET’s grantees and Commission on Global Economic Transformation are looking at artificial intelligence and society.
A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.
Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution
Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us
Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why
Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy