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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Victoria Chick (1936-2023)
Luigi Pasinetti (1930-2023)

The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility

How the Crypto Hustle Carries on America鈥檚 Shameful History of Racial Inequality
Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.

Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals
Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.

Il faut une analyse d茅sagr茅g茅e des cons茅quences de la guerre en Ukraine sur les 茅conomies en Afrique de l鈥橭uest
Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur ex茅cutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la s茅curit茅 alimentaire en Afrique
S茅curit茅 alimentaire en Afrique: 芦 Nous apportons des r茅ponses de court terme 脿 des probl猫mes de moyen-long terme 禄
Quels sont les probl猫mes 脿 long terme qui doivent 锚tre r茅solus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?
Food Security in Africa: 鈥淲e Are Bringing Short Term Responses to Long Term Problems鈥
What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): A Brief Assessment
Servaas Storm鈥檚 commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

How Inflation Reduction Became Export Promotion
Thomas Ferguson鈥檚 commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act
Does Nature Have Rights?

America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic 鈥 and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.