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Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits.

Has the solution to global tensions been waiting at home all along?

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.

Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig were honored for their work on financial instability

Interdisciplinarity is critical in pushing the humanities to better understand humans.

How do we regulate an information utility?

Medhora has served on INET’s Board since 2012 and is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

In a new book, Alligators in the Arctic and How To Avoid Them, Peter Dorman shows how flawed academic models, faulty assumptions and unrealistic schemes grossly underestimate what’s needed to stop catastrophic warming. He argues for a straightforward carbon emission budget – plus the active citizenship required to fight big businesses that want to keep doing business as usual. Lynn Parramore explores his findings and talks to the economist about the path forward.

Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala

Ying Chen discusses her work to better understand development, labor and environmental impact in the Global South, focusing in particular on the realities of Chinese economic policy as it has evolved.

Servaas Storm, Steven Fazzari, and Thomas Ferguson comment on the Inflation Reduction Act

Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

Thomas Ferguson’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

Price inflation, marginal cost pricing, and principles for electricity market redesign in an era of low-carbon transition