Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.
Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again
Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking
Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game
As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.
Don't “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights
Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy
Toxic Philanthropy? The Spirit of Giving While Taking
America’s new “philanthrocapitalists” are enabling social problems rather than solving them
Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
U.N. Secretary-General Meets with INET Global Commissioners
António Guterres and CGET Commissioners discuss cooperating on inequality, climate change, multilateralism, and more
Cheap Talk on Race and Xenophobia Keeps Americans from Confronting Economic and Political Peril
Adolph Reed, who researches race and politics, warns that “identitarian” politics can conceal the structural inequities of capitalism
Why Dodd-Frank Is a Shell Game for Banks
Ten years after the crisis, financial regulation leaves taxpayers holding the bag for banks’ safety net.