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A report of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation’s subcommittee on Inequality, Technology, and the Future of Work

Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.

The Huffington Post features INET research on stock buybacks

Boing Boing covers Dina Srinivasan’s research on Facebook, privacy, and monopoly power

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.

Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations

Excellence and Conformity in Economics: how to set the incentives straight

Group discussed pressing issues in the eurozone and the need for new economic thinking

Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone

Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more

Why Italy’s woes are a warning to the whole Eurozone

China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian stat

Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.

At a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees