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

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Worker’s Wages & Leverage Are the Real Targets

Nov 18, 2022

Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power? INET’s Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

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China’s Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition

Aug 22, 2022

China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States

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Does Nature Have Rights?

Aug 16, 2022

Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.

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Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?

May 31, 2022

Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work.