Articles

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

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Keeping the Oil in the Soil

By James K. Boyce

Jul 22, 2019

The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.

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Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard

By Mark Glick

Jul 16, 2019

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Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

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

Jul 11, 2019

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The Myth of Expansionary Austerity

By Christian Breuer

Jul 8, 2019

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

By Andrea Gabor

Jul 2, 2019

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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

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

There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.

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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