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Are You Ready to Dive Deep into China's Intellectual Odyssey?
Apr 25, 2024
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China’s intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.
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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Apr 19, 2024
The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.
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Overdraft Fees, Credit Card Late Fees, and the Lump of Profit Fallacy
Apr 15, 2024
Predetermined profit margins and prices hidden in the back end of a transaction are really just market failures.
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Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
Apr 8, 2024
Bernanke and Blanchard have made another failed attempt to salvage establishment macroeconomics after the massive onslaught of adverse inflationary circumstances with which it could evidently not contend.
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Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Apr 5, 2024
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
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The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease - Are Non-Profits a Solution?
Mar 29, 2024
Programs for expedited review may be preferentially reducing the development costs for conditions with lesser disease burden, potentially making investments in addressing the most significant disease burdens even less appealing and exacerbating the market failure further.
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The European Union’s New Risk-Based Framework for Fiscal Rules – Overly Complex, Opaque and Self-Defeating
Mar 22, 2024
The discrepancy between technocratic rhetoric and economic facts is colossal.
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Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation—They Don't Use the Money to Innovate!
Mar 14, 2024
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
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How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed
Mar 4, 2024
The “maximum fair price” for a drug must not only be equitable to those with unmet medical needs who may benefit from the use of the drug but also provide equitable returns on both public and private sector investments.
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Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Feb 27, 2024
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
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Inflation and Power
Feb 12, 2024
It was a mistake to accept a ‘reference price’-determination process for basic commodities led by finance
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Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire
Feb 2, 2024
This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party
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What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
Feb 1, 2024
White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors?
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Monetary Policy, Illiquidity, and the Inflation Debates
Jan 29, 2024
The key issue is the regulation of the liquidity of all financial markets, and not just that of the banking system
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Bagehot on Money: A Bridge Between Bankers and Economists?
Jan 22, 2024
Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition