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

Edward Brown: “Growth with ‘DEPTH’ should guide economic transformation in Africa”
In this interview, Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin discuss with Edward K. Brown, Senior Director, Research and Advisory services at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) based in Accra, Ghana, on the effects of COVID-19 on regional integration and economic transformation in Africa, and the role of ACET and African think tanks in advising African governments respond to the crisis.
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”

Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.

America’s Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework. This Economist Has One.
In a new book from Cambridge University Press, Lance Taylor reveals that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.

Reply to Andrew Smithers
Lance Taylor responds to Andrew Smithers’s comment on his INET working paper, “Germany and China Have Savings Gluts, the USA Is a Sump: So What?”

How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.

Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.


OSHA in the 21st Century: Real Protection for America’s Workers
The Occupational Safety Health Administration was created 50 years ago. Today, it’s in dire straits, say OSHA’s leaders during the Obama administration

Elaine Brown, Who Led Black Panthers, Sizes Up America’s Racial Reckoning
The activist and author shares a free-ranging conversation with INET president Rob Johnson.

How America’s Economy Runs on Racism
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains that pursuit of profit, not hatred of black people, is the real root of discrimination.