Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry
Despite fear-mongering about the latest Consumer Price Index, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand
Long-Term Unemployment Is Reversible
Contrary to the New Keynesian paradigm, long-term unemployment can be reversed without a significant uptick in inflation
Covid Is Hitting Workers Differently Than the 2008 Financial Crisis
Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers.
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools Could be Dangerous
School re-opening push based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence
The Economics of the 2021 American Rescue Plan
How to Get Relief to Those Who Need It. Gosia Glinska in Conversation with Anton Korinek
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone
“We’re building a data system, because you can’t really manage a city if you don’t know who’s there and what’s in it.”
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
The Big Squeeze
Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
Mainstream Economists Have Been Using a Misleading Inflation Model for 60 Years
Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation
Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID
Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations
"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.