Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Millionaire-Driven Education Reform Has Failed. Here’s What Works.
Journalist Andrea Gabor’s new book heralds a “quiet revolution” in education you didn’t know was happening
The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy
The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action is needed
How We Can Avoid Climate Catastrophe
A new report shows an economically viable path to net-zero CO2 emissions in key industries by 2060
Cheap Talk on Race and Xenophobia Keeps Americans from Confronting Economic and Political Peril
Beyond the Dollar
Partisan Frenzy Rules Washington, but Does it Have to Rule Americans?
To connect across difference is the only thing that will save us from rule by the privileged few.
Why Wages Are Stagnating in Latin America
William Lazonick has shown how the doctrine of “shareholder value” has hurt wages in the United States. But in Latin America, where family corporations dominate, the story is more complicated.
A Better Bailout Was Possible
Under Trump, the Next Financial Catastrophe is Cooking
Ten years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the Wall Street casino is running amok
Macroeconomics Predicted the Wrong Crisis
Distracted by the perceived threat of a Chinese savings glut, mainstream macroeconomists missed the writing on the wall of the 2008 crisis
Social Stability and Resource Allocation within Business Groups
In China, the government uses the purses strings of state-owned enterprises to control social unrest
The Zero-Sum Economy
The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income and status. But the deeper problem is that more and more economic activity performs a merely distributive function.
The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism
Austerity Caused Brexit
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Ending the Wild West of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Clear rules and sound principles for debt restructuring would level the playing field between developing countries and creditors