Authors Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that declining public confidence in government and financial institutions is putting the U.S. economy in peril -- and a crisis could come faster than you think.
Article | Energy, Environment, Technology & Innovation
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.
By Joseph Romm
Article | Culture, Technology & Innovation
Failed State, Failed Market: Europe’s Bid to Reprice Social Media Harms
Europe’s social media crackdown is less about “speech wars” than a long-overdue attempt to price the public damage created by large platforms.
By Pia Malaney
Article | Government & Politics, Health
America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays
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.
Article | Government & Politics, Health
Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State
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.
Article | Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
By Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Matthias Lalisse, and Paul Jorgensen
Article | Development, Government & Politics, Industrial Policy, Labor, Technology & Innovation, Trade
Venezuela: The Hidden Workforce Behind Oil, AI, and a Fragile Nation
Article | Business & Industry, Finance, Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Technology & Innovation
Venture-backed “tech capital” is reshaping U.S. politics through campaign finance, platform gatekeeping, defense/AI procurement, and policy entrepreneurship. In an interview with Nick French, INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses these channels of influence, examining their macro-distributional consequences, and outlining guardrails to restore democratic accountability and broadly shared gains.
Article | Finance, Government & Politics
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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Dec 02, 2025
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International Conference on Digitalisation, Market and Society is a cross-disciplinary plenary on how digital transformation is altering work, gender norms, and social institutions—and how society can respond inclusively.
Jul 24, 2025
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The focus of this year’s monsoon school is on pluralistic approaches to research on inequality, bringing together perspectives from varied streams of economic thought. It will provide an interactive platform for advanced-level PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars affiliated with Indian research institutes to engage with diverse concepts, debates, and methodologies related to inequality.
Jul 14, 2025
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The urgency of the climate crisis cannot be overstated, particularly given its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities in the Global South.
May 31, 2025
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Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have? How will U.S.-European trade relations evolve? What about the confrontation with China?
Apr 10, 2025
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Jul 15, 2025
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