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

In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19
Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy

Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?
As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.

4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
Kari Polanyi Levitt

The New Hampshire Democratic Primary in One Graph
Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite.

Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly
Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego


Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”
A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics

WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better
To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System

Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019
Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.