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

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Why the World Bank’s Governance Reform Is Stuck – and How to Break the Stalemate

Sep 29, 2025

We examine the World Bank’s protracted and conflicted attempts at shareholding reform from 2008 to the present, situating them within the broader context of multipolarity and intensifying geopolitical rivalries.

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Can States Reinvent U.S. Healthcare? This Expert Thinks So.

Jul 29, 2025

Phillip Alvelda, a former DARPA program manager, reveals how a fracturing federal system has opened the door for bold state leadership. Will blue states rise to build a healthier, more just future?

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Wage Stagnation and Populism: A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith

May 27, 2025

Times have changed. Now we have David Brooks, of The New York Times, and economics blogger Noah Smith defending neoliberal globalization from the pincer movement of anti-trade populists from both the right and the left.

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Rethinking Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy

May 19, 2025

Misaligned incentives account for many of the most troubling features of the pharmaceutical industry’s present practices and performance.

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Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?

Mar 24, 2025

Sara Wynn-Williams, defying Facebook’s attempts to silence her, reveals the company’s toxic culture and global damage, exposing unethical practices and a profit-at-any-cost approach. The key question she leaves us with: How can this be changed?

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The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve

Jan 13, 2025

Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not.