Archive
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Article
Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?
Sep 28, 2023
The tech giant is in the hot seat, but it’s going to be a “big fight,” warns antitrust expert Mark Glick.
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Video
Financial Hurdles in the Green Revolution
Sep 27, 2023
Can finance stop hindering and start helping the green transition?
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News
INET Welcomes Dr. Neva Goodwin as its Newest Governing Board Member
Sep 25, 2023
New INET Governing Board Member Announcement
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Article
Is Too Big to Fail Over?
Sep 22, 2023
We have made progress but not enough to forestall crises
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Video
Empowering Women in Economics
Sep 20, 2023
Professor Rebeca Gomez Betancourt explores the transformative roles of pioneering women like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Hazel Kyrk in the field of economics.
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Article
Creating the Post-2008 Global Safety Net: Fed Precedents, Instruments, and Targets
Sep 18, 2023
The “liquidity” support provided by the Fed to megabanks through cross-border lending in fact acted as subsidies
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Working Paper
Working PaperPrecedents, Instruments and Targets that the Fed Has Used to Create and Support a Postcrisis Global Safety Net
Sep 2023
Creating the post-2008 global safety net for mega-banks
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Article
Reflections on the 15th Anniversary of the Lehman Brothers Failure
Sep 15, 2023
What lessons need to be drawn on this anniversary?
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Video
The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
Sep 13, 2023
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
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Article
What Has the World Learned from COVID-19? So Far, Not Nearly Enough
Sep 12, 2023
By all accounts infection rates have ebbed. But were we good or were we lucky?
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Article
How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
Sep 11, 2023
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
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Article
Postscript: A Further Look at ProMarket’s Economics
Sep 8, 2023
ProMarket’s new “Addendum to Retraction,” written it appears in response to our recent INET post, doubles down on its critique of our piece which showed that it is feasible for increased output to lead to reduced welfare. The ProMarket addendum is notable for its economic errors.*
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Video
Crime vs. Class
Sep 6, 2023
Unveiling the U.S. Prison System
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Article
The Mythology of Horizontal Merger Efficiencies
Aug 31, 2023
Economists had to distort economic theory to fashion their merger “efficiency” arguments
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Working Paper
Working PaperThe Horizontal Merger Efficiency Fallacy
Aug 2023
By permitting business definitions of “efficiency” to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice