Archive
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Il faut une analyse désagrégée des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine sur les économies en Afrique de l’Ouest
Dec 13, 2022
Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur exécutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
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Working Paper
Working PaperWhy Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Dec 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard is severely limited or defective, preventing it from being an appropriate standard for modern antitrust.
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Article
The Impact of the War in Ukraine on West Africa Requires a Disaggregated Analysis
Dec 12, 2022
An interview with Gilles Yabi, executive director of the West African Think Tank WATHI, on food security in Africa
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Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic
Dec 6, 2022
Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
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Webinars and Events
Global Inflation Today: What Is to Be Done?
ConferencePERI Conference, featuring INET Research Director Thomas Ferguson and INET Grantees
Dec 2–Nov 3, 2022
Emerging out of the COVID lockdown, inflation in the U.S. and globally has risen to the highest levels in 40 years. On December 2-3, PERI will host a conference to explore the causes of this global inflation spike. Conference participants will also provide critical perspectives on the austerity macroeconomic policies being implemented globally to control inflation and will propose alternative policies capable of managing inflation without imposing austerity and rising mass unemployment.
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Working Paper
Working PaperMuth’s Hypothesis Under Knightian Uncertainty
Dec 2022
A Novel Account of Inflation Forecasts
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Food Security in Africa: “This Crisis Has Shown the Limits to Africa’s Resilience”
Dec 1, 2022
“We risk a global decoupling in which East and West face off in a cold war, and Africans are caught in the middle,” says Professor Carlos Lopes in an interview with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms Like Google
Nov 28, 2022
Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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Webinars and Events
India: The Path to Sustained Growth for the Next Decade
ConferenceNov 28–30, 2022
The 5th edition of the Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC) is jointly organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, INET and FLAME University.
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Article
Dollar Dominance is Financial Dominance
Nov 23, 2022
What Strategies can Break This Dependency?
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Worker’s Wages & Leverage Are the Real Targets
Nov 18, 2022
Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power? INET’s Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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You’re Living in a World Wrought by the Federal Reserve. Notice Anything Wrong?
Nov 17, 2022
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
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Webinars and Events
Vikasarth 2022 Session 3: Industrialisation and the Case of Educated Unemployed 6:00pm-8:00pm IST
WebinarNov 17, 2022
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
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Green Power Pools and Electricity Pricing: Practical Ways Out of the UK Energy Crisis
Nov 15, 2022
The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.
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Working Paper
Working PaperSeparating electricity from gas prices through Green Power Pools: Design options and evolution
Nov 2022
Moving away from fossil fuels, towards a system with a far greater contribution from variable renewables, means that the current system is not fit for purpose.