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A New Future for Antitrust?
INET papers and articles related to our co-sponsored event at the University of Utah featuring conversations between Utah judges, law professors, attorneys & economists. Watch the sessions
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News
Katharina Pistor on Facebook's Libra
Oct 24, 2019
INET grantee Katharina Pistor is featured in Bloomberg
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Video
A Hereditary Meritocracy
Oct 23, 2019
The University of Chicago’s Raghuram Rajan explains how inequalities in the education system lock in a hereditary hierarchy of success
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Article
Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Oct 21, 2019
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
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Article
This Take on Humanity’s Future Might Blow Your Mindset
Oct 17, 2019
Author Jeremy Lent argues that western conceptual frameworks with roots in the Stone Age push us towards disaster. Time to let them go?
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesBig Tech Acquisitions and the Potential Competition Doctrine: The Case of Facebook
Oct 2019
How antitrust law is ill-equipped to address tech mergers
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Video
Measuring Economic Democracy
Oct 9, 2019
GDP doesn’t tell the whole story—Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index
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Article
How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
Oct 3, 2019
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
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Video
In Defense of Economic Theory
Oct 2, 2019
Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient
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Article
Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom
Oct 1, 2019
Summers and Stansbury mark a dramatic shift from New Keynesian orthodoxy, but only make it halfway to understanding the demand-driven nature of stagnant growth
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News
Exposing Citation Gaming and its Institutional Causes
Sep 16, 2019
A new method developed by INET grantees to estimate country-level citation clubs and self-citations is making waves, with implications far beyond the paper’s initial focus.
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Article
Kalecki, Minsky, and “Old Keynesianism” Vs. “New Keynesianism” on the Effect of Monetary Policy
Sep 11, 2019
Mott walks us through answers many careful readers of Kalecki, Keynes, Steindl, and Minsky knew all along.
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Video
Economics for People
Sep 11, 2019
Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.
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Video
How & How NOT to Do Economics
Sep 11, 2019
What is economics for? What is it about? How should it be done? How can it be of use to us? How is it connected to morals and politics?
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Article
Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa
Sep 9, 2019
An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town