Articles

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

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Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.

By Andrea Gabor

Jul 2, 2019

Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?

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After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.

By Lynn Parramore

Jul 1, 2019

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How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy

Jun 27, 2019

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State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali

By Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker

Jun 26, 2019

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Capitalism’s Great Reckoning

By James K. Galbraith

Jun 24, 2019

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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 24, 2019

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Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis

By Shannon Monnat

Jun 20, 2019

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What Lehman Brothers Tells Us About American Capitalism

Jun 11, 2019

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The Right to Energy & Carbon Tax: A Game Changer in India

By Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty

Jun 10, 2019

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Rates of Return on Everything: A New Database

By Moritz Schularick

Jun 4, 2019

Returns on wealth exceed growth for more countries, more years, and more dramatically than Piketty has found

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Coding Private Money

By Katharina Pistor

Jun 3, 2019

The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now

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Modern Monetary Inevitabilities

By Robert Dugger

May 31, 2019

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INET at the Trento Economics Festival

By Institute Staff

May 30, 2019

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Socialism in Our Time?

May 21, 2019

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Why We Need New Measures of Potential Output—and What They Tell Us

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

May 16, 2019