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

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Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.

May 2, 2023

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

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The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?

Jan 26, 2023

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility

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Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals

Dec 13, 2022

Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.