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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
One Affordability Battle After Another: What to do about the growing damage from the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Affordability of electricity and concerns about fossil fuel pollution, water resources, and job loss, have driven a rebellion against data centers that is both grassroots and bipartisan. Its time for cleaner, faster and cheaper, solutions.
5 Lessons from the End of the Larry Summers Era
Summers’ influence was immense, but so were his blind spots. It’s time for economics that values people and the planet over power and prestige.
Debt, Austerity, and the New EU Rules: Why Italy’s “Reform” Path Still Leads Nowhere
Europe’s revamped fiscal rules promise discipline and stability, but Italy’s numbers tell a different story. Once realistic multipliers and hysteresis are built in, consolidation pushes debt up, growth down, and recessionary pressure outwards across the eurozone, hardly a recipe for sustainability.