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The INET Taskforce in Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability, chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, focuses on the inefficiencies and instabilities that arise from the interaction of agents and institutions operating in networks and from pervasive macro-economic externalities, as well as on the macroeconomic inconsistencies that may result from those interactions.

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

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.

INET experts discuss how financialization has driven up costs of healthcare—and how we can stop it.

Political theorist Wendy Brown explores new threats to democracy and society

Increased financialization is driving healthcare costs and must be addressed in our nation’s public policy.

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

This paper analyzes the early stages of the formation of the Common Market.

This essay deals with the contradictory dynamics that engulfed Europe from 1959 to 1979, the year of the launching of the European Monetary System.

This essay deals with the EMS experience and its failure, with the Maastricht Treaty, and with the interregnum leading to the formation of the EMU in 1999.

Yueran Ma discusses her work with INET’s Private Debt Initiative

Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes

Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes

Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.

INET papers and articles related to our co-sponsored event at the University of Utah featuring conversations between Utah judges, law professors, attorneys & economists. Watch the sessions