293 Results for “COVID 19”
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Webinars and Events
Building a Global Economic Response to COVID-19
Webinarwith Mohamed A. El-Erian | 12:30pm ET / 9:30 PT
Jul 16, 2020
As the world economy seeks to emerge from the deep recession caused by the pandemic, economic nationalism and isolationism are on the rise. Yet the better response to lower growth and worsening inequality could involve globally-coordinated policy responses that focus on broad based, sustainable economic growth. Now more than ever it is time for a new global economic policy paradigm that can facilitate a strong recovery.
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Webinars and Events
The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy
Webinarwith Erik Brynjolfsson | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Jul 23, 2020
Technology has played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitating remote work and automating certain pandemic responses. But it has also accelerated technological adoption, and the “future of work” may now be the present.
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Article
Takyiwaa Manuh: Governments need to focus more on the gendered impacts of COVID-19
Jun 26, 2020
In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Takyiwaa Manuh analyses how the pandemic has disproportionately affected women at different levels especially in Ghana, and describes why governments need to focus more strongly on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in both their sanitary and economic response.
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Article
OSHA in the 21st Century: Real Protection for America’s Workers
Jun 25, 2020
The Occupational Safety Health Administration was created 50 years ago. Today, it’s in dire straits, say OSHA’s leaders during the Obama administration
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Podcasts
Michael Pettis
Jun 19, 2020
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
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Article
Profits from Job Losses Will Finance Government Borrowing for COVID-19 Bailouts
Jun 18, 2020
COVID has meant unemployment for the many and a corporate profit-fueled windfall for the few.
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Podcasts
Chong-En Bai
Jun 17, 2020
Chong-En Bai, professor of economics at Tsinghua University, talks to Rob about how the U.S. can improve global governance, and what lays ahead for China’s relationships with the U.S., Europe, and India.
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Chong-En Bai
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Article
Felwine Sarr : La crise du COVID-19 indique une nécessité de changement et de repenser le monde de demain
Jun 16, 2020
Entretien avec Pr Felwine Sarr, Professeur Titulaire des Universités et agrégé en économie à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis au Sénégal, pour la série d’INET sur COVID-19 et l’Afrique
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Felwine Sarr: The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to change track and re-think the world of tomorrow.
Jun 16, 2020
An interview with Professor Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics at the Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis in Senegal, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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Podcasts
Jamil Anderlini
Jun 16, 2020
Financial Times Asia editor Jamil Anderlini talks to Rob about the lasting legacy of the Opium Wars on Chinese foreign policy, and the future of Hong Kong.
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Jamil Anderlini
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Article
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 15, 2020
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
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Podcast
Zach Carter
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Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear
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Article
Fatima Denton: Governments must accelerate a plan for a diversified economy, an exit from fossil fuels, and shift towards a green transition
Jun 10, 2020
An interview with Dr Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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Podcast
Michael Sandel
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Article
If You Want Justice for Black Americans, You Have to Fix This
Jun 10, 2020
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.
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Webinars and Events
Trillions in COVID-19 Bailouts: Where Did it Go?
WebinarIn Discussion: Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Senior Reporter and Editor for ProPublica with Rob Johnson, President of INET | 12:00pm ET - 9:00am PT
Jun 18, 2020
In March the US government authorized the largest domestic bailout in history. Who were the real winners and losers of this bailout? Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Jesse Eisinger has been following the money.
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Podcast
Gaël Giraud
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Article
Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
Jun 3, 2020
An interview with Pr Benno Ndulu, the former Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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Collection
COVID-19 and Africa
A series of interviews by Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin with African leaders on the pandemic.
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Article
Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Policy Responses to the COVID19 Pandemic in Africa
Jun 3, 2020
An introduction to a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin in support of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET)
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Podcast
Yanis Varoufakis & Danae Stratou
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Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
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Gaurav Dalmia & Jayant Sinha
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Webinars and Events
Money, Politics, and Social Conflict in the Age of COVID & YSI Discussion
Webinarwith Thomas Ferguson - 12pm ET / 9am PT
Jun 4, 2020
Every country has had a different policy response to the crisis; and within countries different political parties have championed various approaches. How has COVID-19 affected politics and social life in developed western countries?
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Webinars and Events
Reshaping Economic Strategy After COVID-19
Webinarwith Dani Rodrik 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Jun 11, 2020
As the collapse of global supply chains highlights the fragility that comes with economic interdependence, the pandemic is fueling the rise of ethnonationalism. Policy decisions in response to the crisis will play an important role in determining the fate of the world economy.
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Podcast
Rana Foroohar
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James Manyika
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Jacqueline Edwards
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Article
COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-person Primary Vote
May 27, 2020
The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which is why the events in Wisconsin on April 7, and their eventual impact, are so important.
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Podcast
Isiah Thomas
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Camilla Toulmin
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Article
Indian Economic Policy: Stimulus, Deficits and Privatisation
May 20, 2020
Over five phased announcements last week, the Indian government set in motion an unprecedented fiscal stimulus. Gaurav Dalmia looks at India’s near-term economic challenges and offers a prescription on how privatisation can help India achieve its objectives.
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Podcasts
Nelson Barbosa
May 20, 2020
Nelson Barbosa—Professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, former Finance Minister of Brazil, and member of INET’s Global Commission on Economic Transformation—talks to Rob about how faith in the free market is eroding under the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the crisis will impact globalization.
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Nelson Barbosa
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Webinars and Events
COVID-19 and Surveillance Technology
Webinarwith Bruce Schneier - 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDT
May 29, 2020
Technology has played a central role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But that has come with increased risks to privacy. How do we balance our needs for safety, convenience and privacy in the wake of this crisis?
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Podcast
Folashade Soule
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Ed Pavlic
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Cornel West
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Article
America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
May 14, 2020
John Ruskin helps shed light on what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it
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Article
The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
May 14, 2020
To able to deal with these consequences, our crisis response now should not lock us in into a permanent state of austerity, greater inequality and heightened vulnerability to future health calamities. New-old social democratic solutions are needed more than ever before.
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Ashley Monet & Brandon Dixon
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Webinars and Events
A Global Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Webinarwith Michael Spence - 12pm EDT / 9am PDT
May 21, 2020
The economic and social costs of the global lockdown have been astronomical but as governments look to begin the process of reopening economies it will be critical to develop strategies that balance both the health and economic risks of the pandemic.
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Naomi Klein & Avi Lews
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Dani Rodrik
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George Akerlof: Economics’ Sins of Omission
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Article
The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
May 9, 2020
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
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Webinars and Events
Europe’s Hamiltonian Moment...or the Beginning of the End?
Webinar11:30am EDT / 5:30pm CET
May 20, 2020
A webinar panel discussion, moderated by Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, with Laurence Boone, OECD Chief Economist, Moritz Schularick, INET Research Fellow, and Adam Tooze, Director of the European Institute at Columbia University.
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Webinars and Events
Pandemic Relief Efforts
Webinarwith Joseph Stiglitz - 12pm EDT / 9am PDT
May 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust us into a new reality, and any course we set now will have huge and lasting repercussions on public health and the economy.
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Podcasts
Rohinton Medhora
May 6, 2020
Rohinton Medhora—economist and President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation—talks to Rob about how our economic institutions, such as the global intellectual property regime and central bank independence hamper our ability to address the global crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed. They also talk about the state of populism, US-China relations, and the effect of the pandemic on Africa.
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Collection
The COVID-19 Economic Crisis
Find all of our COVID-19 pandemic articles, webinars, and working papers here.
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Think Big Pharma Won’t Profiteer in the Race to Treat Coronavirus? Think Again.
May 5, 2020
Evidence shows pharmaceutical companies won’t stop price-gouging and risking American lives for financial gain in this time of crises – unless we force them.
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Podcast
Andrew Sheng
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The Eurozone in Crisis
May 4, 2020
A Report From the Front Line
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Webinars and Events
COVID-19 and the Developing World
Webinarwith Dr. Jayati Ghosh | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
May 8, 2020
Developing countries, many of which appear not to have felt the health effects of COVID to the same extent as Europe and the US, are nonetheless facing severe economic effects as the pandemic pushes the global economy into a recession.
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Podcast
Danny Quah
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Article
Payroll Share, Real Wage and Labor Productivity Across US States
Apr 30, 2020
States can be sorted into two groups with statistically significantly different productivity regimes. In this sense, the US economy shows signs of dualism—which is the idea that the economy consists of heterogeneous units that exhibit different behaviors and levels of performance.
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Webinars and Events
Extreme Climate Change in a Post-COVID 19 World
Webinarwith Geoff Mann | 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Apr 29, 2020
Please join us for a discussion with Geoff Mann, INET Senior Fellow and author of Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future, on how the coronavirus pandemic might (or might not) teach us to prepare for a life on an increasingly hot planet.
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john powell
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Jeremy Lent
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Article
The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal
Apr 28, 2020
A Template to Prevent a Global Debt Crisis?
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Podcasts
Adair Turner
Apr 27, 2020
Rob talks to Adair Turner—member of the House of Lords, former Chairman of the British Financial Services Authority, and member of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation—about how the COVID-19 economic crash compares to the post-2008 recession: namely, how to deal with a crisis of supply in addition to aggregate demand.
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Article
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Apr 24, 2020
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year.
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Podcasts
Michael Spence
Apr 22, 2020
Andrew Michael Spence—Nobel laureate, Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business, and Co-Chair of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation—talks to Rob about how the U.S. government typically errs on the side of doing too little, too late, in response to major crises like the coronavirus pandemic. Spence and Rob compare and contrast how governments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia have responded to COVID-19.
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Jayati Ghosh
Apr 22, 2020
Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and member of INET’s Global Commission on Economic Transformation, talks to Rob about the unique way the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting developing countries. They also discuss the developing global economic crisis, and the way young people in particular are responding.
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Podcasts
John Ralston Saul
Apr 22, 2020
John Ralston Saul, writer and political philosopher, talks to Rob about citizenry and society in light of COVID-19. They discuss models for civic engagement that could better tackle the pandemic, as well as other social problems, such as poverty and inequality.
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John Ralston Saul
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Webinars and Events
US Digital Response to the COVID Crisis
Webinarwith Tim O’Reilly& Jennifer Pahlka | 10am PT / 1pm ET
Apr 24, 2020
As the COVID crisis threatens to overwhelm both federal and state government services, getting the digital component of government services to function effectively is mission critical.
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Article
Women Face Long-term Costs from Covid-19 Abortion Restrictions
Apr 20, 2020
Researchers have shown that the financial and economic impacts of denying women abortion care can last years
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Podcast
Jayati Ghosh
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Gerald Horne
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Roman Frydman
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Joseph Stiglitz
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Article
Europe and the Need for Multilateralism
Apr 14, 2020
A call to action for a world economy in crisis
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Article
In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19
Apr 7, 2020
Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected
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News
COVID-19 Economic Research
COVID-19Apr 6, 2020
Cambridge-INET has just launched a new website, featuring research, insights and news from Cambridge Economists about the economic implications of COVID-19
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Article
CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Apr 6, 2020
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
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Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”
Apr 6, 2020
Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesFirm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1
Apr 2020
As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, this paper finds that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains
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Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data
Apr 2, 2020
The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries
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The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
Apr 1, 2020
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
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Article
World War II to Covid-19: Been Here Before and Done Better
Mar 27, 2020
During WWII FDR mobilized private manufacturers to support the war effort. To keep Americans healthy, we need to do the same now for medical equipment
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The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
Mar 26, 2020
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
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Article
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
Mar 26, 2020
Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
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Top Economist: Instead of Basic Income, Let’s Keep People Working Productively During the Crisis
Mar 25, 2020
William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future
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Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Mar 25, 2020
As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.
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4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 23, 2020
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
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MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”
Mar 19, 2020
The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.
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Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Mar 16, 2020
If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.
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Research Program
Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy