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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy
The Fed is taking an aggressive approach to put out the economic fires of the pandemic. But it needs to allow for flexibility as some business models irreparably change.
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
Fatima Denton: Governments must accelerate a plan for a diversified economy, an exit from fossil fuels, and shift towards a green transition
An interview with Dr Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Policy Responses to the COVID19 Pandemic in Africa
COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-person Primary Vote
The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which is why the events in Wisconsin on April 7, and their eventual impact, are so important.
Chile’s Outburst of Discontent
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.
CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
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
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
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.