Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues
An ensemble of mechanisms enables cloud hegemons (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) to plan the whole AI knowledge and innovation network by weaponizing interdependence in networks.
Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease - Are Non-Profits a Solution?
Programs for expedited review may be preferentially reducing the development costs for conditions with lesser disease burden, potentially making investments in addressing the most significant disease burdens even less appealing and exacerbating the market failure further.
Inflation and Power
Bagehot on Money: A Bridge Between Bankers and Economists?
Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition
Occupation, Gender, and Labor Market Volatility
When working within the same employment spell, female workers, particularly those of color and those working in low-wage service and care jobs, earn significantly less when facing greater volatility than their male counterparts or those working in non-service, non-care occupations.
Democratic Reform at a Time of Dire Troubles
What sort of effective democratic political system does the United States want and need?
Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?
The tech giant is in the hot seat, but it’s going to be a “big fight,” warns antitrust expert Mark Glick.
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Antitrust Arguments “Chicago Style”
ProMarket and the Consumer Welfare Standard An output increase is not sufficient to increase welfare. Allocation—how goods are distributed—matters.