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In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19
Apr 7, 2020
Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected
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News
COVID-19 Economic Research
COVID-19Apr 6, 2020
Cambridge-INET has just launched a new website, featuring research, insights and news from Cambridge Economists about the economic implications of COVID-19
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CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business, for Macroeconomic Balance Maybe Not So Much
Apr 6, 2020
Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.
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Online Education in the Covid-19 Crisis: “It’s Like Coke Dealers Handing Out Free Samples”
Apr 6, 2020
Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids
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Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data
Apr 2, 2020
The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesFirm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1
Apr 2020
As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, this paper finds that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains
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News
INET Board Member Richard Vague on Rescuing the Coronavirus Economy
Apr 1, 2020
INET Board Member Richard Vague writes in The Hill on how to rescue the coronavirus economy
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The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
Apr 1, 2020
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ Versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’
Apr 2020
This paper considers the ambition, scale, substance and strategy of the European Union’s Green Deal
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Video
Join Us in Working Together Online
Apr 1, 2020
Quarantine or not, it can be hard to stay connected, but INET’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is here for this generation’s new economic thinkers.
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World War II to Covid-19: Been Here Before and Done Better
Mar 27, 2020
During WWII FDR mobilized private manufacturers to support the war effort. To keep Americans healthy, we need to do the same now for medical equipment
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The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
Mar 26, 2020
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
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Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
Mar 26, 2020
Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
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Top Economist: Instead of Basic Income, Let’s Keep People Working Productively During the Crisis
Mar 25, 2020
William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future
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Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Mar 25, 2020
As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.