Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?
An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality
Keeping the Oil in the Soil
Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects
Political risk—and what firms do about it
The Myth of Expansionary Austerity
It was too good to be true: Another effort to vindicate austerity falls victim to flawed methodology.
Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India
How free electricity could fight climate change and inequality
Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database
Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found
Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT
U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair
Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.
Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
Populism, Trump, and the Future of Democracy
The most popular political philosopher of his generation on liberal responsibility worldwide for the rise of the hard right
Better Labor Standards Must Underpin the Future of Work
As technology and deregulation continue to shape the labor market, maintaining strong worker protections is as important as ever
Sex, Power, and the Perils of Economic Writing
For women discussing economics, it’s still easier to be seen than heard