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

Indian Economic Policy: Stimulus, Deficits and Privatisation
Over five phased announcements last week, the Indian government set in motion an unprecedented fiscal stimulus. Gaurav Dalmia looks at India’s near-term economic challenges and offers a prescription on how privatisation can help India achieve its objectives.
Chile’s Outburst of Discontent
The Eurozone in Crisis

Payroll Share, Real Wage and Labor Productivity Across US States
States can be sorted into two groups with statistically significantly different productivity regimes. In this sense, the US economy shows signs of dualism—which is the idea that the economy consists of heterogeneous units that exhibit different behaviors and levels of performance.


Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”
Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

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
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy

MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”
The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.

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

A Money View of Keynes, Keynesians, and Post-Keynesians
The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution

Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll