Archive
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesFrom the EMS to the EMU and...to China
Nov 2019
This essay deals with the EMS experience and its failure, with the Maastricht Treaty, and with the interregnum leading to the formation of the EMU in 1999.
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Video
The Perils of Over-Optimistic Borrowing
Nov 6, 2019
Yueran Ma discusses her work with INET’s Private Debt Initiative
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Article
Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.
Nov 4, 2019
Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius
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Article
Not So Modern Monetary Theory
Oct 31, 2019
Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesSynthetic MMT: Old Line Keynesianism with an Expansionary Twist
Oct 2019
Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes
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Video
Learn the Language of Power
Oct 30, 2019
Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.
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Collection
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