Archive
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Video
Solidarity: A World-Changing Idea
Jul 17, 2024
We need collective action and social movements to bring about change, but where is our sense of community and shared identity?
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Article
A New Era of Endless Labor Shortages? A Critical Analysis of McKinsey's New Report
Jul 15, 2024
The McKinsey report’s highlighting of an extremely high job vacancy ratio in recent years does not reflect the true state of the U.S. labor market.
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Article
How Do Tech Innovations Really Spread? New Evidence
Jul 11, 2024
New technologies appear to yield long-lasting benefits for the pioneer locations where they were originally developed.
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Working Paper
Working PaperThe Diffusion of New Technologies
Jul 2024
The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.
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Video
The Economics of China
Jul 10, 2024
How can we understand the bright and dark sides of China’s gilded rise? Through the lens of American history.
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Webinars and Events
Poverty. Development. Globalisation
WorkshopAdvanced Graduate Workshop 2024
Jul 8–20, 2024
Two weeks of dialogues on Poverty, Development, Globalisation
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Article
Why Global Supply Chains Remain Vulnerable
Jul 2, 2024
Journalist Peter Goodman delves into the persistent problems with supply chains and how to fix them his new book, “How the World Ran Out of Everything,” in conversation with the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Webinars and Events
The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
ConferenceJul 1–2, 2024
The intricacies of the political economy that play out across countries in the Global South have profound significance for understanding the nature of ecological change and economic security that confront our world today.
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Article
After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
Jun 27, 2024
The most crucial issue in European policy, and one on which no big party campaigned and no important public discussion took place, was the fiscal policy stance for the next few years.
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Article
Oil and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: A Reanalysis
Jun 25, 2024
An excerpt from Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David N. Gibbs, published by Columbia University Press (2024)
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Article
The Fed’s “Chicken Run”: Why Sticking with High Rates Will Crash the Economy
Jun 24, 2024
In persisting with its high rates policy, the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.
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Article
Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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Article
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Jun 13, 2024
In a candid discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.
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Article
Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues
Jun 10, 2024
An ensemble of mechanisms enables cloud hegemons (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) to plan the whole AI knowledge and innovation network by weaponizing interdependence in networks.
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News
Appelbaum and Batt’s INET working paper is repeatedly cited in testimony for the Senate HELP Committee’s subcommittee hearing
Jun 4, 2024
Subcommittee hearing: When Health Care Becomes Wealth Care: How Corporate Greed Puts Patient Care and Health Workers at Risk