Articles

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

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Why We Need a Global Public Economics

May 7, 2018

Global public goods, from health to peace to security, crisscross national and social boundaries. We need a new economic theory to understand their pivotal role in the global economy.

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Learning from MLK, the Inconvenient Hero

Apr 4, 2018

The vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years later, and the relevance of his economic ideas today

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The Forgotten Economic Vision of Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 2018

In the last years of his life, King was boldly forging a radical, multi-racial movement for economic justice

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Ten Years after Bear Stearns, U.S. Financial Stability Is again in Danger

Mar 12, 2018

Banks are pushing for deregulation and roll backs of Dodd-Frank’s regular check-ups on their financial health. We should be worried. 

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How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut

Mar 5, 2018

Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations

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Should You Buy Bitcoin?

Feb 8, 2018

Over the next year, the Bitcoin price could double, soar tenfold, or collapse by 95% or more, and no economic analysis can help predict where in that range it will lie. Like other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin serves no useful economic purpose, though in macroeconomic terms, such currencies probably also do little harm.

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INET Grantee Lazonick’s Research Shapes DC Share Buyback Debate

Dec 22, 2017

Sen. Tammy Baldwin features arguments in questions to SEC nominees, pharmaceutical industry witness