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

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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

By William Lazonick, Öner Tulum, Matt Hopkins, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Ken Jacobson

Dec 2, 2019

Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.

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Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry

By Edward J. Kane

Nov 26, 2019

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The Decline of the US Labor Share Across Sectors

By Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, and Rudi von Arnim

Nov 21, 2019

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How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 19, 2019

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WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better

Nov 7, 2019

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The Stormy Birth of “Europe”

By Joseph Halevi

Nov 7, 2019

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Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 4, 2019

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Not So Modern Monetary Theory

By Lance Taylor

Oct 31, 2019

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Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition

By Mark Glick and Catherine Ruetschlin

Oct 21, 2019

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This Take on Humanity’s Future Might Blow Your Mindset

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 17, 2019

Author Jeremy Lent argues that western conceptual frameworks with roots in the Stone Age push us towards disaster. Time to let them go?

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How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers

By Alberto Baccini, ​Giuseppe De Nicolao, and Eugenio Petrovich

Oct 3, 2019

New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics

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Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom

By Stefano Di Bucchianico

Oct 1, 2019

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Kalecki, Minsky, and “Old Keynesianism” Vs. “New Keynesianism” on the Effect of Monetary Policy

By Tracy Mott

Sep 11, 2019

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Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa

By Institute Staff

Sep 9, 2019

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Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

Sep 6, 2019