Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist
Productive Bubbles
The One-Earth Balance Sheet
New Ecuadorian Government Teams Up with Powerful International Lobbies to Rejoin Investment Treaties Prohibited by the Constitution
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
What Bagehot Means for 21st Century Central Bankers
Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.
What Earnings Calls Tell Us About Financial Risk
Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system