Articles

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

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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

By Lynn Parramore

Jun 24, 2019

By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution

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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

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Coding Private Money

By Katharina Pistor

Jun 3, 2019

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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

Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why

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Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance

By Mark Glick

May 2, 2019

The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy

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Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT

By Lance Taylor

Apr 30, 2019

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The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 22, 2019

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U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair

By ​Orsola Costantini

Apr 19, 2019

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Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

By Dina Srinivasan

Apr 17, 2019