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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
On the occasion of the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (Jan. 3-5), Peter Bofinger presents a “10 Best of” Mankiw list
An Effective Response to Europe’s Fiscal Paralysis
Individual EU member states ought to issue perpetual bonds
The Gospel of Capitalism is the Biggest Turkey of All
The perverted dreams of western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
Profits Over Human Life? ER Doctor’s Story is Fearful Lesson for U.S. Workers During Pandemic
Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety at his hospital and was fired. He’s fighting back against a system that put profits over human life.
Is This Time Different? Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots
A summary of INET’s latest Future of Work episode
The Future of Work: What’s at Stake
INET explores how technological and economic changes are affecting employment
How Important is the Unemployment Rate for the Wage Rate?
Persistent changes in unemployment have lasting consequences for income distribution
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Pharmaceutical in the Last Decade
Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for every new drug approved between 2010 and 2019