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4 Charts Explain Why You Should Worry 51黑料爆料网历史事件 the New U.K. Covid Strain
Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.
Antitrust Spring

Heading for a Crash? The Future of the Automobile Industry
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry

Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
A look inside the byzantine world of online ads

Affluent Authoritarianism: McGuire and Delahunt鈥檚 New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
New INET research shows once again that it鈥檚 large firms and the 1%—not the 鈥渕edian voter鈥—who drive U.S. policy

Vera Songwe: "Let鈥檚 build forward better!"
In this interview, Dr. Vera Songwe, economist and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa reflects on the ways that African governments have handled COVID-19, the role of the Continental Free Trade Agreement in turbo-charging future growth, the vital role of infrastructural investment and mobilising domestic resources for building forward better and greener.

Final Comments on Lance Taylor鈥檚 鈥淥n the 鈥楪lobal Savings Glut鈥
The third and final round of response from Andrew Smithers on Lance Taylor鈥檚 INET working paper on the alleged “global savings glut.鈥

Edward Brown: 鈥淕rowth with 鈥楧EPTH鈥 should guide economic transformation in Africa鈥
In this interview, Folashad茅 Soul茅 and Camilla Toulmin discuss with Edward K. Brown, Senior Director, Research and Advisory services at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) based in Accra, Ghana, on the effects of COVID-19 on regional integration and economic transformation in Africa, and the role of ACET and African think tanks in advising African governments respond to the crisis.
How Bankers Hide Losses
The Master and the Prodigy
It鈥檚 Time for a Debt 鈥淛ubilee鈥

Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.

America鈥檚 Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework. This Economist Has One.
In a new book from Cambridge University Press, Lance Taylor reveals that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.

Reply to Andrew Smithers
Lance Taylor responds to Andrew Smithers’s comment on his INET working paper, “Germany and China Have Savings Gluts, the USA Is a Sump: So What?”