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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The Full Case Against Ultra Low and Negative Interest Rates
There are several reasons why unprecedentedly low interest rates will probably not stimulate demand and may even threaten financial stability
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable
Mass Producing Covid-19 Vaccine
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
The Future of Macroeconomics
Developments in the real economy have persistently challenged central tenets of older economic thinking, such as the supposed close connection between the money supply and inflation.
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
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
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.
The Promise and Limits of Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.
Is This Time Different? Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots
A summary of INET’s latest Future of Work episode