116 Results for “Coronavirus%20Means”
-
Article
Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety
Jul 28, 2020
When people recognize just how dangerous covid is, they worry more about the economy
-
News
INET Board Member Richard Vague on Rescuing the Coronavirus Economy
Apr 1, 2020
INET Board Member Richard Vague writes in The Hill on how to rescue the coronavirus economy
-
Podcasts
Peter Bofinger
May 7, 2020
Peter Bofinger, an economist and former member of Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, talks to Rob about the economic crisis now facing Europe, how Modern Monetary Theory could address it, and how it differs from the Great Recession of 2008. Mentioned in the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgQRs8nY4chttps://www.socialeurope.eu/coronavirus-crisis-now-is-the-hour-of-modern-monetary-theory
-
Article
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.
-
Video
How Lifting Intellectual Property Restrictions Could Help World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
Apr 29, 2021
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions
-
Article
4 Charts Explain Why You Should Worry About the New U.K. Covid Strain
Jan 13, 2021
Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.
-
News
William Lazonick is quoted in on the stock market practices of Big Pharma
Oct 29, 2020
“Executives have an interest in getting the stock price up and price gouging customers is one way they can do this,” said William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at University of Massachusetts and co-founder of the Academic-Industry Research Network. While many drug companies argue that they use their vast profits to fund ongoing pharmaceutical innovation, Lazonick said, “we’ve shown that most of these companies don’t do that.” Instead, the soaring prices fuel soaring stock prices and executive pay, which is often based largely on that price.” — INET Grantee William Lazonick
-
Video
Why We Need Solidarity Economics
Apr 22, 2020
Economists have gone to great lengths to write humans out of economics, pushing self-interest and generally providing two choices—faith in markets or the state.
-
Podcasts
Naomi Klein & Avi Lews
May 12, 2020
Rob talks to activist and author Naomi Klein and to documentarian Avi Lewis about how the pandemic has spurred the “shock doctrine”: the sudden imposition of neoliberalism and austerity in response to a crisis. They also discuss the possibilities of a new international solidarity around a global Green New Deal.
-
Article
To Save the Economy, Save People First
Nov 18, 2020
Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement
-
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)
-
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.
-
Article
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
-
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
-
Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesGovernment as the First Investor in Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence From New Drug Approvals 2010–2019
Sep 2020
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
-
Article
New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools Could be Dangerous
Mar 19, 2021
School re-opening push based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence
-
Podcasts
Stephanie Blankenburg
Oct 5, 2020
Stephanie Blankenburg, who heads up the Debt and Development Finance Branch of the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, talks about the urgent need for the world to provide massive loan forgiveness to the developing world in response to the global economic crisis that the coronavirus pandemic has caused.
-
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.
-
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
-
Article
Is Silicon Valley Nudging Us Towards an Authoritarian Future?
Jul 29, 2020
Margaret Heffernan’s new book “Uncharted” warns against giving up the power to shape our destiny to gurus and gadgets promising false certainty.
-
Podcast
Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
-
Article
Warning: COVID-Fueled Mental Health Crisis Will Be a Costly Second Pandemic
Nov 30, 2021
It’s time to prioritize mental well-being to avoid far-reaching economic and social consequences.
-
Article
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
Mar 26, 2020
Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
-
News
INET Working Paper on the consolidation of the dairy industry is cited in Homeland Security Today
May 17, 2021
“Larger dairy farms inevitably mean a system less geographically dispersed, larger environmental challenges with farm waste, and a less resilient system. The Institute for New Economic Thinking detailed these impacts in a recent report on the pandemic’s effects on dairy farmers, Spilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation: “The COVID-19 pandemic led to the collapse in commercial demand as restaurants, caterers, schools and other institutional customers were forced to close. Dairy plants serving supermarkets and grocery stores were already operating at close to full capacity when the coronavirus struck. Capital equipment specialized to produce for commercial customers were incapable of producing for consumers served by supermarkets or food banks. Some farmers had no choice but to dump milk.”[9] For the smaller dairy farmers, international (primarily Canadian) competition and price fluctuations are daily economic challenges.” — Charles Luke, Homeland Security Today … [9] Eileen Appelbaum and Jared Gaby-Biegle, “Spilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation,” Institute for Economic and Policy Research, August 15, 2020, https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_134-Appelbaum-and-Gaby-Biegel.pdf
-
Article
The Economics of the 2021 American Rescue Plan
Mar 18, 2021
How to Get Relief to Those Who Need It. Gosia Glinska in Conversation with Anton Korinek
-
Article
The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
Jul 24, 2020
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect
-
News
INET Plenary Rescheduled
Feb 28, 2020
In light of the growing concerns over the coronavirus, we have decided to postpone the INET Plenary to October 13-15, 2020 (originally slated for April 13-15, 2020)
-
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.
-
Article
Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
Feb 9, 2021
Capacity, Scale, and Control
-
Article
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200
Jul 13, 2021
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
-
Article
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
-
Article
Europe and the Need for Multilateralism
Apr 14, 2020
A call to action for a world economy in crisis
-
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.
-
Article
Fatal Combination: Bailouts and Bank Rescues in Money-Driven Political Systems
Apr 13, 2020
Financial industry donations to members of Congress lead to the adoption of pro-bank policies
-
Article
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.
-
Article
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.
-
Article
Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
Mar 13, 2023
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.
-
Article
The COVID-19 Bailout and its Financing Dilemmas
Jun 30, 2020
The speed and duration of COVID-19 economic recovery will depend on how the government will finance emergency programs.
-
Article
What Has the World Learned from COVID-19? So Far, Not Nearly Enough
Sep 12, 2023
By all accounts infection rates have ebbed. But were we good or were we lucky?
-
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
-
Article
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Dec 29, 2020
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
-
Article
Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
Feb 9, 2022
In a new book, How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines the influence of stories on stock market outcomes in an uncertain world.
-
Article
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.
-
Webinars and Events
The Future of Work | Bad Timing: Offshoring Meets Automation
Webinarwith Brad Delong, Rana Foroohar and Damon Silvers; moderated by David Sirota
Oct 13, 2020
The combination of technological disruption and economic globalization have resulted in stagnating wages, middle class job losses, and declining labor power in many developed countries. How did this happen and how could we respond?
-
Article
African Youth Lead Response to COVID-19
Aug 4, 2020
Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.
-
Article
The Eurozone in Crisis
May 4, 2020
A Report From the Front Line
-
Article
Carl Manlan: African Philanthropy Has Mobilized Effectively During COVID19
Dec 17, 2020
In this interview, Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin speak with Carl Manlan, the Chief Operating Officer of the Ecobank Foundation - responsible for Ecobank’s social impact engagement with the communities in which the bank operates in Africa – on the role of African philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in the response to COVID-19 on the continent.
-
Article
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mar 26, 2021
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse
-
Article
Rule Number 1 for Government Bailouts of Companies: Make Sure Voters and Taxpayers Share in the Upside
Mar 23, 2020
If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.
-
Article
There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Jul 16, 2020
To fulfill MLK’s vision of jobs and freedom for Black Americans, Washington must rein in corporate greed
-
Research
The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action
-
Article
New Covid “Super Strain” is a Game-Changer for Schools and More
Jan 8, 2021
Expert warns that without more robust abatement measures and testing, the virus could rage until mid-2022.
-
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
-
Article
Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?
Apr 16, 2020
Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D
-
Article
Inflation in a Time of Corona and War
Jun 6, 2022
Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation
-
Article
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
-
Podcasts
There is no Alternative Beyond Cooperation or Extinction
Feb 11, 2021
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, talks about the love-hate relationship between the US and China and how both sides must learn to cooperate to address the world’s most pressing problems
-
Podcast
Tolu Olubunmi
-
Podcasts
Water: The New Gold
Sep 7, 2021
The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.
-
Podcast
Sarah Kendzior
-
Article
What Does Capitalism Repress? A Jungian Perspective.
Jun 17, 2022
Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.
-
Article
How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
Nov 13, 2020
By fully utilizing the power of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), President Biden could take meaningful steps to keep workers safe during the pandemic, even without Congress’s help
-
Article
Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Jul 7, 2020
Gilead’s shareholders want exorbitant profits from Remdesivir, even though it was the public that enabled its development.
-
Article
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.
-
Article
Vera Songwe: "Let’s build forward better!"
Oct 30, 2020
In this interview, Dr. Vera Songwe, economist and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa reflects on the ways that African governments have handled COVID-19, the role of the Continental Free Trade Agreement in turbo-charging future growth, the vital role of infrastructural investment and mobilising domestic resources for building forward better and greener.
-
Article
ER Doctor: Private Equity is Killing American Healthcare
Sep 23, 2021
Dr. Ming Lin complained about Covid-19 safety measures at his hospital. He got fired because a giant Wall Street firm called the shots.
-
Article
Experts on Inflation: Prognosis, Political Fallout and Who’s Really to Blame
Nov 18, 2021
Economists Claudia Sahm, Servaas Storm, and Pia Malaney share their views on the problem that has everyone freaking out. Here’s what it all means for your pocketbook – and your democracy.
-
Article
Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death
Aug 9, 2021
If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.
-
Article
Young Scholars Want More Voices Heard in Economics
Dec 3, 2020
No one person or perspective holds the key to solving economic problems, says Jay Pocklington of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
-
Article
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
-
Article
Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
Oct 20, 2020
Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety at his hospital and was fired. He’s fighting back against a system that put profits over human life.
-
Article
How Market Sentiment Underpins Knightian Uncertainty
May 7, 2020
We find empirical evidence that changes in market sentiment drive unforeseeable change in how stock returns unfold over time, thereby engendering Knightian uncertainty.
-
YSI Event
Research & Policy Workshops
IMPORTANT: Due to growing concerns around the coronavirus, the INET Conference, as well as these workshops will be postponed.
YSI
WorkshopApr 13–15, 2020
IMPORTANT: Due to growing concerns around the coronavirus, the INET Conference, as well as these workshops will be postponed. Applicants will soon be provided further information.
-
Podcast
Peter Bofinger
-
Article
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Jun 3, 2021
Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.
-
Article
How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare
May 24, 2021
The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.
-
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.
-
Podcast
Adair Turner
-
Podcast
Gaurav Dalmia & Jayant Sinha
-
Article
America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
Aug 8, 2022
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic – and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
-
Article
Europe’s Fateful Choices for Recovery – An Italian Perspective
Jul 13, 2020
To fight COVID-19, the EU must recognize that spending restraints have to go
-
Article
The Political Economy of the French Pension System Reform(s)
Apr 22, 2020
Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?
-
Article
US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade
Sep 2, 2020
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019
-
Article
Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID
Feb 3, 2021
Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations
-
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.
-
Article
Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?
Sep 8, 2021
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
-
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
-
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.
-
Article
Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Apr 13, 2021
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
-
Podcast
Jeremy Lent
-
Podcast
Naomi Klein & Avi Lews
-
Podcast
Benjamin Grant
-
Article
How the Crypto Hustle Carries on America’s Shameful History of Racial Inequality
Jan 24, 2023
Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.
-
Podcast
Zach Carter
-
Podcast
Joe Boyd
-
Podcasts
A Global Green New Deal
Feb 10, 2022
Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.
-
Article
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
Feb 10, 2021
“Equitable COVID19 vaccine distribution is a very important issue of global solidarity”
-
Article
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
-
Podcast
William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism
-
Article
“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
Aug 19, 2021
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist