Archive
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
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Article
The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency
Dec 13, 2019
Many of the challenges facing the new EU Presidency will need to be addressed not only at the European level but within a reinvigorated multilateral framework.
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Article
Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
Dec 12, 2019
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us.
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Video
Banning Buybacks
Dec 4, 2019
Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.
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Article
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Dec 2, 2019
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
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Video
Between Rational and Irrational
Nov 27, 2019
Columbia University’s Richard Robb talks about his new book on human behavior
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Article
Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
Nov 26, 2019
Repeat after me: How much pipe should Fed plumbers lay if Fed plumbers like to lay pipe?
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Article
The Decline of the US Labor Share Across Sectors
Nov 21, 2019
The U.S. economy is increasingly becoming a dual economy, where high productivity sectors—such as manufacturing—and high pay sectors—such as finance and professional services—co-exist with low pay and low productivity sectors that employ most workers.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Decline of the U.S. Labor Share Across Sectors
Nov 2019
This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.
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Video
The Hidden Costs of Healthcare
Nov 20, 2019
INET experts discuss how financialization has driven up costs of healthcare—and how we can stop it.
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Article
How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Nov 19, 2019
Political theorist Wendy Brown explores new threats to democracy and society
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Webinars and Events
Hidden Costs Of Healthcare
ConferenceNov 15, 2019
Increased financialization is driving healthcare costs and must be addressed in our nation’s public policy.
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Video
Don't Be Evil. Rana Foroohar on Big Tech.
Nov 13, 2019
The Financial Times correspondent on the libertarian streak in Silicon Valley
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Article
WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better
Nov 7, 2019
To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.
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Article
The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
Nov 7, 2019
National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System