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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
Storm argues the AI data-centre investment boom is creating a bubble that will be socially and financially expensive when it pops.
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Distribution Matters: Flawed Welfare Foundations in Classic Free Trade Arguments
The argument that free trade is always the correct policy is based on a flawed welfare analysis. Free trade results in winners and losers and economists are not competent to analyze the impact on well-being as a whole or the spillover social consequences of the discontent of the losers.
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The Hidden History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
From political slugfests to classroom battles, historian Marc Egnal talks with INET’s Lynn Parramore about the need for a new approach to our national story.