Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Productive Bubbles
Occasionally, financial speculation fastens onto transformational technologies that have the potential to create a genuinely new economy.
China and the Supply Chain: A Comment on the June 2021 White House Review
Contrary to rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic interest in trade and peace with China
Kandeh Yumkella: COVID-19 Has Helped People Understand the Vital Connection Between Energy and Health.
Dr Kandeh Yumkella is a development economist, founder and CEO of The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), a regional hub for sustainable energy solutions and serves as a Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone. Previously Dr Yumkella served as Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and founding chief executive officer for the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative (2013–2015). He also served as Director-General of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO, 2005–2013), mobilising global consensus for SDG7 and 9. He is a member of the High-Level Group of the Africa-Europe Foundation, co-chair of the Africa Europe Foundation Strategy Group on Energy, and member of various international advisory bodies, boards, and commissions.
Why Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicles Won't Avert Climate Crisis
Lance Taylor’s New INET Paper
How COVID-19 Is Impacting Rural Africans in the Sahel
An interview with young migrants living in Mali’s capital city of Bamako
“Young African People See No Clear Future for Themselves”
An interview with African development specialist Bara Guèye
« La jeunesse africaine n’a pas assez de visibilité sur son avenir »
Un entretien avec Bara Guèye
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
The Standard Economic Paradigm is Based on Bad Modeling
The New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) is a straightjacket for macroeconomics
Meet the "New Koch Brothers" – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology
Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development