Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Patents vs. the Pandemic
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year.
Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data
The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries
The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.
Modeling Myths of Climate Change
Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
Demand-Side Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth
Without new economic thinking, macro policy will retain its deflationary biases and secular stagnation remains the ‘normal’.
The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency
Many of the challenges facing the new EU Presidency will need to be addressed not only at the European level but within a reinvigorated multilateral framework.
Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us.
The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
Not So Modern Monetary Theory
Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?