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

Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.


Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
The curious case of the Wall Street Journal article on Virginia and school vouchers

Jim Chanos: China鈥檚 鈥淟everaged Prosperity鈥 Model is Doomed. And That鈥檚 Not the Worst.
Famed short-seller is even more concerned with political fallout from Evergrande than economic/financial woes.

Globalization and Its Big Data: The Historical Record in Financial Markets
In the 19th Century, 鈥渉ypothecations鈥 provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources

Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
Going Down the Rabbit Hole at Jackson Hole

Why Aren鈥檛 Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
Productive Bubbles
The One-Earth Balance Sheet

Reconstructing US-China Relations
The world-renowned development economist Jeffrey Sachs outlined a new framework for US-China relations in conversation with INET President Rob Johnson

Could Modern Crises Stem from Problems in the Human Brain?
As a pandemic continues to expose weaknesses in our human systems and institutions, psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist鈥檚 proposition that a battle in our heads is impacting the direction of our future is worth revisiting.
