Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty
Apple should be returning profits to workers who have invested their time and effort into generating its products and to taxpayers who have funded the investments in the physical infrastructure and human knowledge so critical to Apple’s success.
To Boost Investment, End SEC Rule Encouraging Buybacks
The New York Times is having a “Room For Debate” discussion on its Opinion Page about how corporations should handle profits based on the Harvard Business Review article “Profits Without Prosperity” by William Lazonick of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, who is a grantee of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The discussion features contributions by Bruce Greenwald, Peter Thiel, and Lazonick, among others. Lazonick argues that the capital being used for stock buybacks would be better spent on investment. Lazonick’s “Room For Debate” piece is below. To read the full discussion on The New York Times, click here.
All Together Now?: Inequality and Growth in US Metro Areas
With the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, the American public has become increasingly concerned about the scale and impact of inequality in economic life.
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention
Inequality and the Future of Capitalism
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) organises its 18th annual conference on Inequality and the Future of Capitalism with introductory lectures on heterodox economics for graduate students.
Post-Crash Economics
We Can Blog it!
Economics as engineering III: Carnegie stories
The “economics and engineering” line of argument is part of economists’ rhetoric.
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Last week the “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop” was held at the Department of Economics of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), in Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Reflections of the Université Catholique de Louvain “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop”
Our Hansen Moment
Mature history of economics
[PART 1] U.S. Current Account Deficits and German Surpluses: The Role of Income Distribution in Global Imbalances
Germany’s economic policies are under attack from all sides.