Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Rule Number 1 for Government Bailouts of Companies: Make Sure Voters and Taxpayers Share in the Upside
If the public is to be called upon for the second time in twelve years to bail out businesses, it should get something back for its money. Bailed out firms should be compelled to issue convertible bonds to the government.
Kari Polanyi Levitt
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
Modeling Myths of Climate Change
How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages
Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego
Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”
A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics
Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy
One thing is clear – the ‘get Brexit done’ slogan resonated in a country which had been living on a series of knife edges as one ‘crunch’ time after another came and went.
The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System
Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.
Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius
Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs
A Plan for Earth’s Survival that Can Survive U.S. Politics?
Economist James K. Boyce explains how to fight climate change and rising income inequality in one shot