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Articles

Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, and Casino Capitalism

By Lynn Parramore

Aug 25, 2025

The famed short-seller reminds us that technology might advance, but we’re still a pretty predictable bunch of apes.

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Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange

By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Aug 5, 2025

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Accounting for Ourselves: What Fedwire Tells Us About Fed Losses, Cost Recovery, and Risk

By William Bergman

Aug 5, 2025

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Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare? This Expert Thinks So.

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 29, 2025

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Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Social Roots of Price Persistence

By Nicholas M. Burotto

Jul 17, 2025

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U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Jul 14, 2025

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AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse

By Maurice Stucke

Jul 7, 2025

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Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 30, 2025

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: What Real Evidence Shows

By Henry Dao and Fred Ledley

Jun 26, 2025

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Behind the Tariff Dilemma: Kalecki on Structuralist Development Policy

By Jan Toporowski

Jun 23, 2025

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kalecki’s seminal lecture in Mexico on financing economic development, Jan Toporowski’s INET Working Paper considers the relevance of structuralism and Kalecki’s view of economic development for today.

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What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 12, 2025

In Capitalism and Its Critics, New Yorker writer John Cassidy brings to life the figures who warned of monopoly power, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism—forces still at work today. He discusses his book with Lynn Parramore.

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Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue

By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm

Jun 2, 2025

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Steering AI to Enhance Jobs and Prepare for Future Transformation

By Anton Korinek

May 29, 2025

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Wage Stagnation and Populism: A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith

By James K. Galbraith

May 27, 2025

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Rethinking Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy

May 19, 2025