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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
From Potential Output to Full Employment: A Paradigm Shift for Italian Fiscal Policy
Europe’s new fiscal rules still bind policy to fragile estimates of potential output. For Italy, targeting lower unemployment could sustain stronger growth, improve deficit outcomes, and expose the self-defeating logic of austerity when debt is measured against a stagnating economy.
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?
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.