Health researcher Steven H. Woolf warns: "I'm not too sure the average person is really aware of this -- that the length of your life depends on what state you're in." Read convo w/ Lynn Parramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Concentrated wealth shortens American lives. Even for the rich. Health researcher Steven H. Woolf talks to Lynn Parramore

Americans are dying younger. And young Americans are dying. Researcher Steven H. Woolf explains why to Lynn Parramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Democratic elites chose donors over workers. Without an aggressive economic agenda they risk becoming the permanent minority party, warns Thomas Ferguson. @bostonreview.bsky.social  www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Rogoff’s book tells the story of an establishment insider who learns to win by playing the outsider. What does that habit do to economic judgment?  www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Researcher Steven H. Woolf uncovers the hidden ways life in America is killing us sooner. Check out convo w/ Lynn Parramore. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Democratic Party = permanent minority party without something more than Obamacare tweaks, supply side tinkering, AI wonders, or abundance-by-deregulation. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

In 1990, New York and Oklahoma had the same life expectancy. Now they’re wildly different. Why? Researcher Steven H. Woolf explains to Lynn Parramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

In 2016, Kevin Warsh joined Paul Volcker and other analysts for an INET session on "Closing the Gaps in Financial Regulation." Today's news highlights underscores the continuing importance of that theme. www.ineteconomics.org/events/finan...

Insider/outsider? Rogoff was at Harvard, in IMF circles, in the top journals... Yet here is a narrative that postures towards being an outsider arguing against the consensus it helped build. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The real question isn’t whether crypto should have rules — it’s whose interests those rules serve. New INET research shows how political money powered crypto's hazardous phoenix-like resurrection www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Novogratz on the strong Democrat "commitment": “they realized it was really bad politics to be anti-crypto" INET’s latest Working Paper follows the political $$$ that powered this resurgence: www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Crypto was left for dead after FTX—then Washington brought it back. New research shows how political money powered its hazardous phoenix-like resurrection. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Venezuela is an extreme case of a global pattern: rising costs, insecure work, and AI and oil companies choosing profits over people. Lynn Parramore explores what happens to workers on the front lines of an affordability meltdown www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

William Hartung: “Whether you’re a hawk, a reformer, or a peacenik, the system doesn’t work.” Catch @LynnParramore’s interview with Hartung and Ben Freeman on their new book, Trillion Dollar War Machine. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Exploitation isn’t abstract—it’s measurable. 👉 youtu.be/0jJZV7NgCVg 👀 Jonathan Cogliano @umassbostonecon.bsky.social shows how inequality runs deeper than income or wealth.

Servaas Storm’s latest working paper argues that the heedless projections of AI’s exponential growth — which defy logic & ignore unforgiving real-world constraints — are creating an investment bubble that will be socially and financially costly when it bursts. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Ciccone's New INET working paper finds the new EU fiscal rules on Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio may slow growth and undermine the sustainability of public debt. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Larry Summers’ retreat leaves America a roadmap for what economics shouldn’t be -- and what it COULD be. Lynn Parramore investigates www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The International Conference on Digitalisation, Market, and Society organized by INET-YSI in collaboration with IISER Mohali and Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA, from December 2-4, 2025. Find more about the conference here: www.ineteconomics.org/events/inter...

We can feed every child and house every family. The problem isn’t production—it’s distribution. 👉 youtu.be/DDw2yHQ8Usc 👀 Sven Beckert explores the real story of capitalism and our modern economy in his new book: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541160...

EconOfWar.org just won silver in the Anthem Awards🎉 Our deepest thanks to all who voted, only together can we build an economics for a brighter future! anthemawards.com/winners/list/entry/#!education-art-culture/show-or-video/the-economics-of-war-and-peace/0/new-economic-thinking/623560

AI was supposed to widen the marketplace of ideas. Instead, a handful of platforms now decide how truth travels—and who gets heard. Stucke’s New INET working paper explains what happens when ‘data-opolies’ control both search and AI. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

“Volatility today is not a product of nature, but of design” Costantini & Muthayan show how decades of deregulation, speculation, & austerity built a food system that protects profits, not people & how recent G20 leaders are starting to redefine it www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Elon Musk is, once again, taking stock. Hopkins and Lazonick outline the golden paved road that brought us to yesterday’s record-shattering stock-based “compensation” package. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

For context. If the Titanic was made of SOLID GOLD, you could buy 13 with this wealth.

The longer the shutdown lasts, the shakier the economy’s foundation becomes. Private data is replacing official numbers. Lynn Parramore talks to experts. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Zohranomics: In expensive cities: affordability issues like housing, childcare, & utilities aren’t just numbers—they’re votes. Lynn Parramore breaks it down www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

“Data is history.” 👉 youtu.be/zkwMstdomhc 👀 Emma Rothschild @historyecon.bsky.social on Adam Smith, climate change, and the lost conversation between disciplines.

Time is running out! Tomorrow is the last day to vote for #EconOfWar in The Anthem Awards: 👉 wbby.co/EAWNP 🙏 Economics can either fuel conflict or pave the way to lasting peace, the choice is ours.

When they claim to tell you free trade is better policy, look again 👀 Glick & Lozada explain why that economists' arguments for free trade arguments slide past the crucial fact that these change income distribution www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The Economics of War and Peace is an Anthem Awards finalist! Have you voted yet? wbby.co/EAWNP You haven't watched it?? Well, here's a nice post from @umassamherst.bsky.social to learn more: umass.edu/news/article/james-boyces-video-series-economics-war-and-peace-named-finalist-anthem-community

H1-B’s fee “an overdue admission that prices matter. If policymakers pair that acknowledgement w/pay standards, real mobility, backlog relief, & a merit channel, the US can remain open to global talent while rebuilding the home-grown pipeline”- Pia Malaney www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

What if everything you learned in U.S. history class was incomplete? 👀 Historian Marc Egnal calls out the myths of American exceptionalism & explains how they still shape everything from shutdowns to school debates. Check out the convo w/ Lynn Parrramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The richest Americans control $46 trillion in wealth—but many pay little or no federal tax. 👉 youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI 👀 @bostoncollege.bsky.social professor Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax code has built a new aristocracy in her new book "The Second Estate" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Congrats to PERI's James Boyce and INET for being nominated by Anthem Awards for the series #EconOfWar!

Pia Malaney investigates the debate over high-skill immigration: do visas fill critical talent gaps that fuel innovation, or do they depress pay for domestic STEM workers? www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

A heartfelt thank you to The Anthem Awards for recognizing #EconOfWar! We’re proud to see our work honored alongside so many other inspiring projects. 🗳️ wbby.co/EAWNP 👈 Help us celebrate with your vote!

A must-read ftom economist Servaas Storm... www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Think TrumpRx will lower your drug costs? Not so fast. The real battle is taking on Pharma’s shareholder-first business model. @LynnParramore breaks it down with economist Öner Tulum www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The dirty secret behind U.S. drug prices? Your meds are expensive because Pharma’s priority isn’t health — it’s shareholders. Lynn Parramore breaks it down with economist Öner Tulum www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

🚨Researching issues related to American Political Economy? Professor Thomas Ferguson's recent Working Paper provides a valuable introduction to help researchers navigate the Institute for New Economic Thinking's new database of pre-F.E.C. political finance records. Check it out! 👇

The GENIUS Act creates a “Shadow Banking 2.0” crypto regime and unleashes crypto derivatives that will inflate a “Subprime 2.0” crypto bubble www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Chris Hughes on stablecoins: "The problem is, at a foundational level, I just don’t believe this is in the public interest." check out the convo between @c-hughes.bsky.social & Lynn Parramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Without campaign contribution & spending data US history, politics, & economics often resembles a donut 🍩: a gaping hole at the center. INET’s new data archive of historical political finance records marks a major step toward filling this factual void www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

What if AI is a bubble? Servaas Storm’s latest working paper discusses three sobering research studies showing that novel ever-larger GenAI models do not become better, but worse, and do not reason, but rather parrot reasoning-like text. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

$142B in buybacks hollowed out Intel. In India, inequality and neoliberal reforms hollowed out jobs. 👉 youtu.be/D5SsmvxMX5A 👀 Sripad Motiram explains how neoliberal reforms fueled inequality and set the stage for Hindu nationalism.

New: Vestergaard & Wade Paper: 3 scenarios for the WB shareholding review—worst case= stalemate, a modest reform w/symbolic gestures, & best-case= a new institutional design based on misalignment limits, responsible shareholding, & open leadership selection. www.ineteconomics.org/research/res...

CEO pay is out of control. 👉 youtu.be/rI8b21JujVk 👀 @deanbaker13.bsky.social @ceprdc.bsky.social digs into the problem, and what we can do about it.

@c-hughes.bsky.social on stablecoins: “It has never before in history been possible to steal a billion dollars or even transfer a million dollars w/o any government or any intermediary knowing… w/stablecoins… nobody even knows.” Check out convo w/ Lynn Parramore www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...