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

Paper: Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs
Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs

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

Revealed: New Insight into What Really Drives the Stock Market
In a new book, How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines the influence of stories on stock market outcomes in an uncertain world.

Introducing the Novelty-Narrative Hypothesis
A new view of stock market instability under Knightian uncertainty

Models of Temperature and Economic Growth: Some Cautionary Remarks
Many studies of the effect of climate change on GDP seriously mislead the research community, policymakers, and the general public.

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.

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Economic journalist Martin Wolf’s address to the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University’s 20th anniversary conference, Economic Policy and Economic Theory for the Future

Welcome to the Emergency Room. A Wall Street Honcho Will Decide Your Treatment.
Doctors and medical experts say private equity firms and profiteering corporations are putting American lives at risk and compromising the practice of medicine.
Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
In this interview, Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin speak with Pr. Mzukisi Qobo. Pr Qobo is the Head of the Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Autos and the European Union: Another Crash?
In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.