Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The Path to an African Economic Boom
The African Development Bank has laid out a plan for economic prosperity in the continent. But to get there, African countries must first confront jobless growth and underfunded infrastructure projects.
How Public Spending Creates Jobs and Growth—Without Inflation
Contrary to conventional wisdom, government stimulus can improve the health of the economy for years after, without inflationary side effects
What Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Secular Stagnation
Forget the myth of a savings glut causing near-zero interest rates. We have a shortage of aggregate demand, and only public spending and raising wages will change that.
The Dark Side of Discrimination in the Economics Profession
How Women Are Forced to Conform to the Research Habits and Interests of Men
The Big Questions Are Back
How Germany, the EU and the economics field itself suffer from myopia—and what we can do about it
America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks
An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks
Surprise: The 1% Is Overrepresented in the Ivy League
New research shows that access to elite colleges varies by parents’ income—reinforcing inequality across generations
Jim Chanos: U.S. Economy is Worse Than You Think
The famed short-seller offers a mid-2017 reality check for “fake fiscal news,” and economic pipe dreams, and sees “portents of even worse things”
We’ll Always Need Paris
Faced with rapid cost reductions for clean electricity generation, some commentators suggest that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.
