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

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The New Merger Guidelines: Consumer Welfare vs. Protecting Competition Standards

Apr 13, 2026

Should antitrust law focus primarily on measurable performance outcomes such as price and output as indicated by Robert Bork’s Consumer Welfare Standard? Or is it more important to concentrate on whether conduct undermines the competitive process itself as per the newly revitalized Protect Competition Standard?

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America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays

Feb 9, 2026

Health researcher Steven H. Woolf tells INET’s Lynn Parramore why making Americans healthy again means economic policies that help working- and middle-class families. Raw raw milk won’t cut it, and even being rich won’t save you. *This is Part 2 of the interview; Part 1 is here.

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Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State

Feb 2, 2026

In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it. *This is Part 1 of a two-part interview; Part 2 is here.