Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Who Has Space for Renewables?
Estimated space requirements for solar energy sufficient to power the entire world are reassuringly trivial, at 0.5-1% of global land area. For individual countries however, the challenges vary greatly, reflecting dramatic differences in population density.
Demystifying Monetary Finance
The debate about so-called helicopter money is burdened by deep fears and unnecessary confusions: some worry that monetary finance is bound to produce hyperinflation; others argue that, in terms of increasing demand and inflation, it would be no more effective than current policies. Both cannot be right.
Racial Wealth Gap Won't be Fixed by Education Alone
Renewed attention on America’s stark and growing racial wealth divide requires critical thinking on policy remedies
Minsky's Many Moments
A rejoinder to Michael Grubb, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Igor Bashmakov and Richard Wood
We are grateful to Michael Grubb, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Igor Bashmakov, and Richard Wood for their interesting, empirically rich and structurally insightful commentary on our paper on the production-based and the consumption-based Carbon Kuznets Curve (CKC).
Carbon Decoupling?
A comment on Goher-Ur-Rehman Mir and Servaas Storm’s Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production Based vs Consumption-Based Evidence on Decoupling
The Promise of Regrexit
From Brexit to the Future
The EU is preparing to take a tough line with Britain, in order to deter other member states from following it out of the Union. But it is the neoliberal agenda that has prevailed for last four decades, benefiting only the top 1%, that is fueled voter anger on both sides of the Atlantic.
How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
Business school students are taught to extract resources instead of creating value.
Economics in a Different Key
Brexit: The Tectonic Plates
A Bridge From Brexit
The Bank for International Settlements Looks Through the Financial Cycle
The BIS offers a comprehensive picture of the state of the world economy, and of dysfunctional policies holding it back
Brexit and the Future of Europe
The European Union is headed for a disorderly disintegration, and can only be saved if it is reconstructed to satisfy citizens’ needs and aspirations
In Memoriam, Jack Treynor
Global Money: A Work in Progress
Should we really be 'learning to love' the robots?
A response to Arjun Jayadev’s argument about the impact of automation on our work and life