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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
“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
America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.
Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.
History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy. Antitrust expert Mark Glick explains how the U.S. went astray during the 1980s, and how to get back on track.
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse
Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon