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We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.

Research

We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

Articles

Commentary, analysis, interviews, and research summaries by INET-affiliated writers.

Video

Interviews, presentations and video series with provocative economic thinkers, public figures and students.

Podcast

Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson, a podcast featuring interviews with some of the world’s most important thinkers, artists, and activists about the pressing issues of our time. The podcast is also available on all major podcasting platforms, such as Apple, Spotify, Google, and Podbean.

Education

Video series and courses for students and educators interested in exploring new economic thinking.

Events

To foster new economic thinking, we host convenings that gather together a diverse community of thinkers from different fields, countries, and schools of thought.

YSI

Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Articles

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

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Never Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era

Jul 13, 2020

Coming out of the Great Depression, America built a middle class, but systematic discrimination kept most African-American families from being part of it

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Europe’s Fateful Choices for Recovery – An Italian Perspective

By Antonella Stirati

Jul 13, 2020

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Elites Have Made the American Dream a Nightmare for Black People. Who’s Next?

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 9, 2020

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Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For

By Fred Ledley, Ekaterina Cleary, Zoë Folchman-Wagner, and Matthew Jackson

Jul 7, 2020

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About the Fed’s New Credit Allocation Policy

By Edward J. Kane

Jun 30, 2020

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The COVID-19 Bailout and its Financing Dilemmas

By Jan Toporowski and Robert Calvert Jump

Jun 30, 2020

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Takyiwaa Manuh: Governments need to focus more on the gendered impacts of COVID-19

By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin

Jun 26, 2020

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OSHA in the 21st Century: Real Protection for America’s Workers

By David Michaels and Jordan Barab

Jun 25, 2020

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Elaine Brown, Who Led Black Panthers, Sizes Up America’s Racial Reckoning

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 24, 2020

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Who Benefits From New Technologies?

By Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Aakash Kalyani, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun

Jun 22, 2020

Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?

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Profits from Job Losses Will Finance Government Borrowing for COVID-19 Bailouts

By Lance Taylor

Jun 18, 2020

COVID has meant unemployment for the many and a corporate profit-fueled windfall for the few.

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Felwine Sarr : La crise du COVID-19 indique une nécessité de changement et de repenser le monde de demain

By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin

Jun 16, 2020

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Felwine Sarr: The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to change track and re-think the world of tomorrow.

By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin

Jun 16, 2020

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How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class

By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz

Jun 15, 2020

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Fatima Denton: Governments must accelerate a plan for a diversified economy, an exit from fossil fuels, and shift towards a green transition

By Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin

Jun 10, 2020