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Appelbaum and Batt’s research into Private Equity buyouts is cited in Emergency Medical News
Jan 5, 2021
“The landscape of EM has consolidated into a few corporate conglomerates, which are oligarchies with iron grips on contracts through noncompetitive or illegal collusions with large hospital systems in the form of kickbacks. (Institute for New Economic Thinking. March 15, 2020; https://bit.ly/34fLeMD.) This has effectively castrated any hope for independent practices to thrive and injected many wrongful consequences into EM.” — Rizvi, Saba MD, Emergency Medical News
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The Gainesville Sun featured Peter Temin's INET-funded book
Jan 5, 2021
“But to my surprise, The Atlantic article explained that MIT economist Peter Temin, in his book “The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy,” not only delved into the contributing factors to poverty and economic inequality, he offered systemic solutions. This approach made the piece a must-read for me because at Gainesville for All, we’re all about finding systemic solutions to problems linked to race and poverty. Temin offered five proposals he believes can help tip the scales favorably for those stuck in the lower class.”— James F. Lawrence, Gainsville Sun
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Dina Srinivasan's INET funded research into Google's advertising monopoly is featured in the NY Times
Jan 5, 2021
“When Texas and nine other states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google last week, the complaint identified many of the same conflicts of interest as Ms. Srinivasan’s paper, Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets” in the Stanford Technology Law Review. The lawsuit said Google controlled every part of the digital advertising pipeline and used it to give priority to its own services, acting as “pitcher, batter and umpire, all at the same time.” … “Marshall Steinbaum, an assistant professor at the University of Utah’s economics department, wrote on Twitter that Ms. Srinivasan’s articles on Google and Facebook had a greater influence on the recently filed antitrust cases than all the other research about those companies or tech in general by traditional economists focused on competition policy.” — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesEmployment Mobility and the Belated Emergence of the Black Middle Class
Jan 2021
“Build back” means restoring the government and business investments in the productive capabilities of the U.S. labor force that created a growing middle class in the three decades after World War II
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Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
Jan 3, 2021
On the occasion of the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (Jan. 3-5), Peter Bofinger presents a “10 Best of” Mankiw list
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Dr Anthony Fauci: ‘We Will End This Outbreak' | The Bottom Line
Dec 31, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci tells host Steve Clemons that the United States can go back to “normal” in the autumn, which starts in September 2021, if 70-85 percent of Americans get vaccinated by the summer.
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4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Dec 29, 2020
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.
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Understanding LGBTQ Employment Discrimination
Dec 23, 2020
“If you want to make the world a more equal place, you need to understand the tools.”
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Antitrust Spring
Dec 18, 2020
After years of amassing power, the tide is turning against the tech monopolies
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Working Paper
Working paperRethinking the Role of the Representativeness Heuristic in Macroeconomics and Finance Theory
Dec 2020
Even if psychological factors influence participants’ decision-making, as behavioral economists compellingly argue, incorporating such factors into economic theory would seem to require that market participants adhere to elementary logical rules.
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Carl Manlan: African Philanthropy Has Mobilized Effectively During COVID19
Dec 17, 2020
In this interview, Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin speak with Carl Manlan, the Chief Operating Officer of the Ecobank Foundation - responsible for Ecobank’s social impact engagement with the communities in which the bank operates in Africa – on the role of African philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in the response to COVID-19 on the continent.
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How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Dec 16, 2020
Trump’s approach largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
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Fighting Neoliberalism with Keynes & Minsky
Dec 16, 2020
Riccardo Bellofiore explains how managerial capitalism of the post-war era entered into a crisis of profitability in the 1970s, and subsequently metamorphized into a new stage, where the role of banks changed, households became net borrowers and businesses net lenders.
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INET research into big tech's monopoly power is cited in the FT
Dec 15, 2020
“That starts to take tech regulation to a place that’s more similar to financial regulation, which is where it should be. On that note, check out this very interesting INET paper by Dina Srinivasan, which looks at how Google monopolises advertising markets in ways that would be prohibited in other electronic trading markets.” — Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
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Jack Gao appeared on Arirang News to discuss American Chinese relations
Dec 15, 2020
Joseph Bosco former China country director in the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Jack Gao, Program Economist at INET appeared on Arirang News to discuss whether the U.S.-China rivalry will improve under a Biden administration.