Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
INET Memo to G20: The Trouble with Economic Research Evaluation
In a memo for the G20, INET calls for changes to the evaluation of economic research to ensure that economic theory—and policy—is more rigorous, innovative, and in service to society.
BRICS to Play a Leading Role in Driving Future Global Economic Growth
But the five countries must still support greater investment in other emerging and developing economies
Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy
How Well Does Financial Regulation Work?
What 200 Years of Government Interventions in Financial Markets Can Tell Us
Visions Beyond the Haunted House
Reflections on the Radical Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Major Speech
A Note on the Gender Disparity in Quoted Experts
Why women experts are denied the same scholarly authority conferred to men, and what we should do about it
With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
By pushing workers into precarious, part-time work, “Third Way” governments of the past 20 years helped to create the disturbing economic trend that’s vexing orthodox economists
When Demand Shapes Supply
Should You Buy Bitcoin?
How Pseudoscientific Rankings Are Distorting Research
The shocking—but illustrative—example of how an Italian government agency concocted statistics to evaluate scholarship, hid them from the public, and masqueraded them as science. It’s a growing phenomenon
How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement
Behind towering figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were the taxi dispatchers, pharmacists, grocers, and other small business owners who were instrumental in making civil rights a reality.
Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers