Archive
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How to Reclaim America’s ‘Democracy’ From the Big Finance Oligarchy
Jan 6, 2025
Sociologist Michael A. McCarthy’s latest book shows how ordinary people can take back control of financial capitalism and make it work for them.
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America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics
Dec 20, 2024
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.
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Political Investments
Dec 17, 2024
An interview with Thomas Ferguson on the 2024 US election conducted by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod and Tim Barker for Phenomenal World
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Rebooting Antitrust’s Normative Economic Theory
Dec 16, 2024
Industrial organization economists have caused antitrust to cling to an antiquated and disproven economic theory.
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A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare
Dec 12, 2024
Dr. Victor Gurewich, a researcher and Harvard Medical School faculty member since 1965, discovered a breakthrough drug treatment for heart attacks and strokes with the potential to save millions, but institutional resistance and a U.S. healthcare system that puts profits over patients are keeping it out of reach.
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Protecting the Consumer: A Conference at the University of Utah with CFPB Director Rohit Chopra
Dec 9, 2024
The Utah Project on Antitrust and Consumer Protection hosted a conference on the future of consumer financial services law on October 11, 2024, which was supported by an INET grant.
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Trump, Tariffs, and Exchange Rates: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
Dec 2, 2024
What Japan, the US, and Europe have in common is growing popular anger over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment.
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How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
Nov 19, 2024
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
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Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments
Nov 18, 2024
Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop
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INET Research and the 2024 Election
Nov 6, 2024
Ever since 2016, INET researchers confirmed the significance of economic issues in Trump’s ascendency.
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America at the End of Its Tether
Nov 4, 2024
Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
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The German Coal Industry and the Rise of Hitler: A Reassessment
Nov 1, 2024
The key role coal industrialists played in supporting and financing the eventual Nazi triumph
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Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?
Oct 31, 2024
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.
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Climate Change and Macroeconomic Models: Why General Equilibrium Models Do Not Work
Oct 28, 2024
The limitations of the benchmark E-DSGE framework and how these limitations restrict the ability of this framework to meaningfully capture the macroeconomics of the climate crisis.
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Neural Network Effects: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
Oct 21, 2024
As artificial intelligence reshapes our economy, policymakers must act swiftly to prevent a winner-take-all scenario in the rapidly evolving market for AI foundation models.