Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Guardian’s Wisconsin investigation points to big money’s systemic distortion of U.S. democracy
Newspaper’s probe amplifies questions raised by our research into the impact of corporate donations onU.S. elections
Demystifying Monetary Finance

General Equilibrium Theory: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?
Does general equilibrium theory sufficiently enhance our understanding of the economic process to make the entire exercise worthwhile, if we consider that other forms of thinking may have been ‘crowded out’ as a result of its being the ‘dominant discourse’? What, in the end, have we really learned from it?

Carbon Decoupling?

How Much Do Shady Financial Practices Cost You, Exactly?
Average U.S. household loses over $100,000 to destructive activities of bankers and financiers

Was the Financial Crisis Anticipated? Evidence from Insider Trading in Banks
Evidence from Insider Trading in Banks
The Promise of Regrexit
From Brexit to the Future

Another Banking Crisis in Europe? This Time, Save Banks, Not Bankers
If Italy or the European Union have to step in to save banks, there’s no reason for them to have to do it for free

Brexit, Trump and the challenge of populism
What we’re reading: As the shock of the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union continues to roil, a number of analysts see it as revealing dynamics of which all Western policymakers ought to be aware
Brexit: The Tectonic Plates
A Bridge From Brexit
Brexit and the Future of Europe

How the Brexit Tragedy Challenges Economics
It would be a tragic mistake to read anti-E.U. sentiment across Europe as simple bigotry — racism and xenophobia are being nurtured by the economic pain produced by prevailing economic policies

Brexit's Impact on the World Economy
Why a British vote to leave the European Union would have consequences far larger than the UK’s proportional share of the global economy might suggest
In Memoriam, Jack Treynor
Global Money: A Work in Progress

From Keynes to Lucas, and Beyond
Book review: Michel De Vroey and the problems of macroeconomics