Articles

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

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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?

By William Lazonick

Jan 31, 2020

How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy

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Demand-Side Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth

By Servaas Storm

Jan 30, 2020

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Inclusive American Economic History

By Trevon Logan and Peter Temin

Jan 17, 2020

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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego

By Institute Staff

Jan 16, 2020

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Free Market or Socialism: Have Economists Really Anything to Say?

By Andrea Attar and Thomas Mariotti

Jan 14, 2020

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Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead

By Malcolm Sawyer

Jan 13, 2020

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The 2020 Election in Three Graphs

By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen

Jan 10, 2020

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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 3, 2020

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Brexit and the UK election: Experts, Uncertainty, and Political Economy

By Sheila Dow

Dec 19, 2019

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The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

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

Dec 15, 2019

Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll

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The Challenges to Portugal’s EU Presidency

By Damon Silvers, David Smith, Hans Eichel, Hugo Zsolt de Sousa, and Stewart Wood

Dec 13, 2019

Many of the challenges facing the new EU Presidency will need to be addressed not only at the European level but within a reinvigorated multilateral framework.

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Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 12, 2019

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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

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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