Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
Who's Responsible Here?
Let鈥檚 Get Real. Economists Have a Sex Problem
Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.
Dakar Dialogue Brings Politics Back into Economic Thinking
A report from the Commission on Global Economic Transformation鈥檚 meeting in West Africa
Modeling Myths of Climate Change
Inclusive American Economic History
Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
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.
Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
Repeat after me: How much pipe should Fed plumbers lay if Fed plumbers like to lay pipe?
Not So Modern Monetary Theory
How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom
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
Summers and the Road to Damascus
YSI Successfully Holds Fifth and Final Regional Convening in Asia
An update from INET’s Young Scholars Initiative