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In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us.

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.

Columbia University’s Richard Robb talks about his new book on human behavior

Repeat after me: How much pipe should Fed plumbers lay if Fed plumbers like to lay pipe?

The U.S. economy is increasingly becoming a dual economy, where high productivity sectors—such as manufacturing—and high pay sectors—such as finance and professional services—co-exist with low pay and low productivity sectors that employ most workers.

This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.

INET experts discuss how financialization has driven up costs of healthcare—and how we can stop it.

Political theorist Wendy Brown explores new threats to democracy and society

Increased financialization is driving healthcare costs and must be addressed in our nation’s public policy.

The Financial Times correspondent on the libertarian streak in Silicon Valley

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System

This paper analyzes the early stages of the formation of the Common Market.

This essay deals with the contradictory dynamics that engulfed Europe from 1959 to 1979, the year of the launching of the European Monetary System.