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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech
Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, transparent public service, Wikipedia is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech companies that it tries to obscure
A Big Fiscal Push is Urgent, The Risk of Overheating Is Small
The $1.9 trillion stimulus should be large because the need is large
The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics
Conservative legal theory is based on a shoddy definition of what constitutes “efficiency”
The Future of Macroeconomics
Paper: Structural Transformation, Economic Development and Industrialization in Post-Covid-19 Africa
While Africa’s “premature deindustrialization” appears to be the dominant global narrative, recent analysis of the data suggests that de-industrialization is not the common experience for the majority of African countries
4 Charts Explain Why You Should Worry About the New U.K. Covid Strain
Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.
Antitrust Spring
Heading for a Crash? The Future of the Automobile Industry
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry
Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
A look inside the byzantine world of online ads
Affluent Authoritarianism: McGuire and Delahunt’s New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
New INET research shows once again that it’s large firms and the 1%—not the “median voter”—who drive U.S. policy