Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How Economics Found Science …and Lost its Subject Matter
Re-evaluating the “equality-efficiency” trade-off
At What Point Does a Billionaire’s Greed Hurt the Rest of Us?
The social cost of America’s economic royalty
Our Economic System is Making Us Mentally Ill
The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?
How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism
Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.
Introducing the Novelty-Narrative Hypothesis
A new view of stock market instability under Knightian uncertainty
Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
The curious case of the Wall Street Journal article on Virginia and school vouchers
Trade and Development Backstory: The Struggle Over the UNCTAD 15 Mandate
Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.
Globalization and Its Big Data: The Historical Record in Financial Markets
In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources