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Article
The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease - Are Non-Profits a Solution?
Mar 29, 2024
Programs for expedited review may be preferentially reducing the development costs for conditions with lesser disease burden, potentially making investments in addressing the most significant disease burdens even less appealing and exacerbating the market failure further.
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Video
Hysteresis and the Economy
Mar 27, 2024
Do temporary economic shocks like the COVID-19 recession create lasting effects on the economy?
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Article
The European Union’s New Risk-Based Framework for Fiscal Rules – Overly Complex, Opaque and Self-Defeating
Mar 22, 2024
The discrepancy between technocratic rhetoric and economic facts is colossal.
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Article
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation—They Don't Use the Money to Innovate!
Mar 14, 2024
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
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Video
The Hidden Traps in Auto Loans
Mar 13, 2024
How the dark side of consumer finance prioritizes profit over people.
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Video
Work, Retire, Repeat
Mar 6, 2024
The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
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Article
How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed
Mar 4, 2024
The “maximum fair price” for a drug must not only be equitable to those with unmet medical needs who may benefit from the use of the drug but also provide equitable returns on both public and private sector investments.
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Working Paper
Working PaperConsidering Returns on Federal Investment in the Negotiated “Maximum Fair Price” of Drugs Under the Inflation Reduction Act: an Analysis
Mar 2024
The empirical analysis of public sector investments and the health value created by the drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations provides a cost basis for the assessment of the maximum fair price.
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Video
Sanctions: To Russia with Love
Feb 28, 2024
James Galbraith flips the script on sanctions. How has Russia adapted?
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Article
Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Feb 27, 2024
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
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Video
Navigating Economic Crises
Feb 21, 2024
How can we better prepare for financial downturns?
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Webinars and Events
Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics (MYM)
ConferenceFeb 20–22, 2024
Challenges And Emerging Perspectives
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Webinars and Events
LEPC VI: Ideas for Building the Future
ConferenceFeb 16–18, 2024
India: Climate Change, Technology, and Growth
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News
INET in India (February 2024)
Feb 14, 2024
The media coverage of the INET team’s February 2024 visit to India. Prof. Michael Spence, Chair of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET), along with INET Governing Board Chair Dr. Rohinton Medhora, and INET President Dr. Rob Johnson, took part in this visit.
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Video
Empowering Communities
Feb 14, 2024
Jo-Anne Rolle emphasizes the critical role of entrepreneurship and technology in revitalizing local economies and addressing societal issues.