Articles

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

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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego

By Institute Staff

Jan 16, 2020

The AEA and the Crisis of Expertise

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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

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

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 3, 2020

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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 Silvers, 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

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How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 19, 2019

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WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better

By Aaron Freedman

Nov 7, 2019

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

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Not So Modern Monetary Theory

By Lance Taylor

Oct 31, 2019

Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes

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Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition

By Mark Glick and Catherine Ruetschlin

Oct 21, 2019

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How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers

By Alberto Baccini, ​Giuseppe De Nicolao, and Eugenio Petrovich

Oct 3, 2019

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Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom

By Stefano Di Bucchianico

Oct 1, 2019

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Kalecki, Minsky, and “Old Keynesianism” Vs. “New Keynesianism” on the Effect of Monetary Policy

By Tracy Mott

Sep 11, 2019

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Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa

By Institute Staff

Sep 9, 2019

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Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

Sep 6, 2019

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Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing

By Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

Sep 4, 2019

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Central Banks, Secular Stagnation, and Loanable Funds

By Mario Seccareccia and Marc Lavoie

Sep 3, 2019

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Summers and the Road to Damascus

By Servaas Storm

Sep 3, 2019

Why Pushing on a String Has Never Worked

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Central Bankers, Inflation, and the Next Recession

By Lance Taylor

Sep 3, 2019

Summers and Stansbury Get It Half Right

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Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?

By James K. Galbraith

Aug 30, 2019

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YSI Successfully Holds Fifth and Final Regional Convening in Asia

By Thomas Vass

Aug 27, 2019

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The Sacrificial Rites of Capitalism We Don’t Talk About

By Lynn Parramore

Aug 26, 2019

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Developing Asia Needs a New Economic Paradigm

By Jayati Ghosh

Aug 13, 2019

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Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!

By Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Chang

Aug 12, 2019

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AI is Forcing Us to Rethink Economics

By Jack Gao

Aug 9, 2019

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A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 30, 2019

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Keeping the Oil in the Soil

By James Boyce

Jul 22, 2019

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Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard

By Mark Glick

Jul 16, 2019

The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

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

Jul 11, 2019

Political risk—and what firms do about it

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The Myth of Expansionary Austerity

By Christian Breuer

Jul 8, 2019

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Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.

By Andrea Gabor

Jul 2, 2019

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After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 1, 2019

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How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy

By Aaron Freedman

Jun 27, 2019

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State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali

By Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker

Jun 26, 2019

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Capitalism’s Great Reckoning

By James K. Galbraith

Jun 24, 2019

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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 24, 2019

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Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis

By Shannon Monnat

Jun 20, 2019

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What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism

By Aaron Freedman

Jun 11, 2019

Ben Power, who adapted the play “The Lehman Trilogy,” talks about the eponymous family’s role in the creation and destruction of American wealth

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The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India

By Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty

Jun 10, 2019

How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality

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Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database

By Moritz Schularick

Jun 4, 2019

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Coding Private Money

By Katharina Pistor

Jun 3, 2019

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Modern Monetary Inevitabilities

By Robert Dugger

May 31, 2019

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INET at the Trento Economics Festival

By Institute Staff

May 30, 2019

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Socialism in Our Time?

By Aaron Freedman

May 21, 2019

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Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

May 16, 2019

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Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

By Mark Glick

May 2, 2019

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Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT

By Lance Taylor

Apr 30, 2019