Archive
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Article
Protecting the Consumer: A Conference at the University of Utah with CFPB Director Rohit Chopra
Dec 9, 2024
The Utah Project on Antitrust and Consumer Protection hosted a conference on the future of consumer financial services law on October 11, 2024, which was supported by an INET grant.
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News
NY Times and Rolling Stone Cited Fred Ledley’s INET Working Paper on the NIH’s Investment in FDA Approved Drugs
Dec 5, 2024
NY Times (12/1/2024) & Rolling Stone (12/3/2024)
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Trump, Tariffs, and Exchange Rates: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
Dec 2, 2024
What Japan, the US, and Europe have in common is growing popular anger over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment.
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Webinars and Events
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Al), Privacy, and Governance
ConferenceNov 30–Dec 2, 2024
This conference aims to explore important issues of economics of AI, good governance, humanization of AI technologies, privacy, considerations of creative thinking and imagination, and take a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities of AI technologies.
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Article
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
Nov 19, 2024
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
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Article
Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments
Nov 18, 2024
Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop
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News
NBER Published Anton Korinek’s INET-Funded Research
Nov 13, 2024
NBER: Concentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
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Collection
The Economics and Governance of New Technologies
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Article
INET Research and the 2024 Election
Nov 6, 2024
Ever since 2016, INET researchers confirmed the significance of economic issues in Trump’s ascendency.
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Article
America at the End of Its Tether
Nov 4, 2024
Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
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Article
The German Coal Industry and the Rise of Hitler: A Reassessment
Nov 1, 2024
The key role coal industrialists played in supporting and financing the eventual Nazi triumph
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Working Paper
Working PaperHitler and the German Coal Industrialists: Passing the Keys to A Kingdom
Nov 2024
The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” from 1926 to 1933
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Article
Can We Avoid a Franken-Future with AI?
Oct 31, 2024
In his new book, Mindless, acclaimed economic historian Robert Skidelsky urges readers to pause and reflect on the delicate balance between advancing technology and our human essence.
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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