Archive
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Article
Climate Change and Macroeconomic Models: Why General Equilibrium Models Do Not Work
Oct 28, 2024
The limitations of the benchmark E-DSGE framework and how these limitations restrict the ability of this framework to meaningfully capture the macroeconomics of the climate crisis.
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Working Paper
Woking PaperMacroeconomic Modeling in the Anthropocene
Oct 2024
Why the E-DSGE Framework Is Not Fit for Purpose and What to Do About It
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Article
Neural Network Effects: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
Oct 21, 2024
As artificial intelligence reshapes our economy, policymakers must act swiftly to prevent a winner-take-all scenario in the rapidly evolving market for AI foundation models.
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Working Paper
Working PaperConcentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
Oct 2024
The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.
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News
The Washington Post and Sen. Markey Cite Appelbaum and Batt’s INET Working Paper on REITs and the Reshaping of Healthcare
Oct 18, 2024
Sen. Markey’s “Steward Healthcare Report” Washington Post
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Video
The Economics of War & Peace
Oct 16, 2024
Economics can either fuel conflict or pave the way to lasting peace, the choice is ours.
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News
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics
Oct 14, 2024
INET is very happy to congratulate this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson.
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Article
The Deutschmark’s Real Father? A Jewish American Written Out of History.
Oct 10, 2024
In a fresh release from INET’s book series with Cambridge University Press, renowned German economic historian Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich uncovers the startling truth behind German currency reform usually hailed as the foundation of the post-war German economic miracle: Ludwig Erhard, who cooperated with the Nazis, unjustly claimed the spotlight, overshadowing the real architect, Edward Tenenbaum.
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Video
The War Machine
Oct 9, 2024
If we want durable peace, we need to look for more than just economic expansion.
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Article
The Fed and the “Soft Landing” - Policy or Luck?
Sep 30, 2024
The biggest factor in accounting for the strength in the economy is the continuing importance of the wealth effect in sustaining consumption by the affluent.
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Working Paper
Working PaperGood Policy or Good Luck? Why Inflation Fell Without a Recession
Sep 2024
A major factor in the decline of inflation is the simple fact that America’s workers were, in general, unable to raise their nominal wages in line with the rise in the cost of living
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Video
Inside the Loan Shark Economy
Sep 25, 2024
Trust, Risk, and Relationships
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Working Paper
Working PaperSetting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices: What the Medicare Negotiators Need to Know About Innovation and Financialization
Sep 2024
Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
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Webinars and Events
Strategy Roundtable During UN General Assembly (UNGA)
DiscussionSep 23, 2024
Strategizing on Addressing the Planetary Emergency and Unlocking Opportunities for an Exponential Just Transition
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Article
What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Sep 22, 2024
Medicare Needs a Perspective on “Collective and Cumulative Learning” in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations