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

AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse
Without strong privacy laws and aligned incentives, increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.

Europe’s Gas Roller Coaster
A new INET Working Paper by Yaroslav Melekh, James Dixon, Katrina Salmon, and Michael Grubb, interrogates the contradictions between fossil lock-in through LNG import capacity and overcontracting, and policy-driven demand reduction. Here is a summary of the paper’s main findings.

They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Economist William Lazonick reveals how the extraction model of American corporations has migrated from business to government.
Trade in the Time of Trump

“A Generational Loss of Talent” - Scientist Warns Funding Cuts in Science, Tech, and Health Undermine U.S. Leadership
Phillip Alvelda, a scientist and entrepreneur with past roles at NASA and DARPA, sounds the alarm on cuts that threaten the innovative capacities that have made America a global powerhouse.

Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
Consumer demand by America’s most affluent citizens is driving consumer spending, and consumer spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high

America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics
The country’s flawed insurance model, driven by greed, leads to inefficiency, inequality, and denied care - a colossal scam that has sparked fury across the nation.

Political Investments
An interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election conducted by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod and Tim Barker for Phenomenal World
America at the End of Its Tether

The German Coal Industry and the Rise of Hitler: A Reassessment
The key role coal industrialists played in supporting and financing the eventual Nazi triumph

Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?
In his new book, Mindless, acclaimed economic historian Robert Skidelsky urges readers to pause and reflect on the delicate balance between advancing technology and our human essence.
What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?

The “Fortune 500” of 1812
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country and possibly more than all other countries combined.