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An update from INET’s Young Scholars Initiative

Author Supritha Rajan argues that self-interested competition may be the official line, but it’s far from the whole story

Inadequate demand and climate change require a global green new deal

Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.

INET’s grantees and Commission on Global Economic Transformation are looking at artificial intelligence and society.

Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot

The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.

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

Political risk—and what firms do about it

It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.

Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?

The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick

With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world

Frequent civil conflicts in African countries may erode national identity, thus highlighting a reason why civil conflict is costly for growth and development

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.