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?
Article | Finance, Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
The Fed, Congress, and the President: The Constitutional Authority to Make Money
The struggle over the Federal Reserve is not just a dispute about central bank independence. It is a constitutional conflict over democratic sovereignty itself: in a representative system, the power to make money belongs first to the legislature, not the executive.
Article | Development, Government & Politics, Health, Inequality & Distribution, Technology & Innovation
Transforming Corporate Governance to Improve Access to Medicines in the Global South
Affordable medicines remain out of reach for millions because pharmaceutical innovation is organized around value extraction, not public health. How do shareholder-driven governance and fragmented global health financing reinforce inequity, and what structural reforms are needed to reverse it?
By Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Öner Tulum, and William Lazonick
Article | Finance
Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
Less capital, more risk, familiar consequences. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
By Pia Malaney
Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution
Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires.
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Article | Government & Politics, Macroeconomics
From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Article | Energy, Environment, Technology & Innovation
By Joseph Romm
Article | Culture, Technology & Innovation
Failed State, Failed Market: Europe’s Bid to Reprice Social Media Harms
By Pia Malaney
Article | Government & Politics, Health
America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays
Article | Business & Industry, Finance, Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
William Hartung and Ben Freeman, authors of Trillion Dollar War Machine, talk with INET’s Lynn Parramore about America’s runaway defense spending and its increasingly alarming human toll
Article | Business & Industry, Finance, Macroeconomics, Technology & Innovation
Working Paper | Development, Government & Politics, Health, Inequality & Distribution
The global medicine-access crisis is not simply a failure to balance innovation and affordability. It reflects a deeper system in which shareholder-driven pharmaceutical governance and fragmented donor structures undermine public health and block the shift toward more equitable value creation.
By Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Öner Tulum, and William Lazonick
Working Paper | Finance, Macroeconomics
Investigations into the possible effects of the fiscal consolidations required under the new European fiscal rules on Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio find that the new governance framework may lead to the pro-cyclical tightening, weaker growth and adverse debt dynamics that characterized earlier phases of EU fiscal governance.
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Finance, Macroeconomics, Technology & Innovation
Storm argues the AI data-centre investment boom is creating a bubble that will be socially and financially expensive when it pops.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Trade
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.
By Mark Glick and Gabriel Lozada
Working Paper | Government & Politics, History
INET’s new data archive of historical political finance records at the National Archives marks a major step toward filling this factual void. This INET Working Paper outlines what users need to know to navigate the archive effectively and locate the data they require.
Dec 08, 2025
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