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The debilitating challenges women face in being heard are detrimental to economic prosperity and to democracy itself.

Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits.

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.

How do we regulate an information utility?

In a new book, Alligators in the Arctic and How To Avoid Them, Peter Dorman shows how flawed academic models, faulty assumptions and unrealistic schemes grossly underestimate what’s needed to stop catastrophic warming. He argues for a straightforward carbon emission budget – plus the active citizenship required to fight big businesses that want to keep doing business as usual. Lynn Parramore explores his findings and talks to the economist about the path forward.

Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

Thomas Ferguson’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

Price inflation, marginal cost pricing, and principles for electricity market redesign in an era of low-carbon transition

Because global warming doesn’t take a holiday

Is it good for your wallet? A climate bill in disguise? Landmark action or nothingburger? Economic experts assess the Democrats’ legislative victory for the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

How big tech barons crush innovation—and how to fight back

In memory of Lance Taylor

China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States

Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.