Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Imbalances in China's International Payments System
Why it’s urgent that China adjust its balance of payment structure and safeguard its foreign assets
The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Did Young Voters Swing the 2017 UK General Election Result?
This blog post looks at the aggregate picture and collates some micro evidence in a more robust estimating framework to shed light on this question.
The Moral Burden on Economists
In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.
Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs
Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions
Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book
Debating Household Debt
INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality
China’s Weapons of Trade War
Carbon Dividends: The Bipartisan Key to Climate Policy?
The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them
At Sea Without an Anchor
A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen
Trumping Capitalism?
Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers
From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics