Articles

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

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Think Big Pharma Won’t Profiteer in the Race to Treat Coronavirus? Think Again.

By Lynn Parramore

May 5, 2020

Evidence shows pharmaceutical companies won’t stop price-gouging and risking American lives for financial gain in this time of crises – unless we force them.

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The Eurozone in Crisis

By Annamaria Simonazzi

May 4, 2020

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Payroll Share, Real Wage and Labor Productivity Across US States

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

Apr 30, 2020

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The Argentina Debt Reduction Proposal

By Jayati Ghosh

Apr 28, 2020

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Patents vs. the Pandemic

By Joe Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, and Achal Prabhala

Apr 24, 2020

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The Political Economy of the French Pension System Reform(s)

By Matthieu Montalban

Apr 22, 2020

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Women Face Long-term Costs from Covid-19 Abortion Restrictions

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 20, 2020

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Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?

By Rosie Collington

Apr 16, 2020

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Europe and the Need for Multilateralism

By Damon Silvers, David Smith, Hans Eichel, Hugo Zsolt de Sousa, Jesús Caldera, Paul Magnette, Pier Carlo Padoan, and Stewart Wood

Apr 14, 2020

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Fatal Combination: Bailouts and Bank Rescues in Money-Driven Political Systems

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Apr 13, 2020

Financial industry donations to members of Congress lead to the adoption of pro-bank policies

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In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19

By Antonella Stirati

Apr 7, 2020

Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected

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CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much

By Lance Taylor

Apr 6, 2020

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Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 6, 2020

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Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data

By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

Apr 2, 2020

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The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19

By Servaas Storm

Apr 1, 2020