Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Policy Responses to the COVID19 Pandemic in Africa
From Eric Garner to George Floyd: How History Repeats Itself
The Great Migration brought many freedmen to the North, and the reaction to that brought the Southern Mind to northern police officers as well.
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
Think Big Pharma Won’t Profiteer in the Race to Treat Coronavirus? Think Again.
Evidence shows pharmaceutical companies won’t stop price-gouging and risking American lives for financial gain in this time of crises – unless we force them.
In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19
Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected
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.
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
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.
Kari Polanyi Levitt
Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly