Ineteconomics

Drug Price Wars: What Can Really Tame Big Pharma?

10/14/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Here’s the breakdown on what’s really driving America’s runaway drug prices -- and whether any of the current plans stand a chance to lower your pharmacy bill.
When it comes to the sickening cost of prescription drugs in America, this much is true: Big Pharma didn’t get rich by playing nice. It got rich playing Wall Street games.

For decades, economist William Lazonick has been exposing how Pharma’s Wall Street-driven business model doesn’t just lead to sky-high drug prices, but actually stifles innovation, too.

Bretton Woods: A System That Can’t Be Fixed—But Can Be Made Fairer and More Effective

10/13/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

The IMF and World Bank can no longer function as instruments that discipline some member countries while deferring to others. Their challenge is to transform the exercise of power among member countries into a framework of mutual respect and cooperation.

Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability

10/06/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

The GENIUS Act is a disastrous law that poses grave and unacceptable threats to our financial and economic future. Congress must remove those threats by (1) repealing the GENIUS Act and passing legislation that requires all stablecoin providers to be FDIC-insured banks, and (2) adopting legislation that requires all crypto derivatives to comply with the rules governing non-digital derivatives under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Unlocking America’s Political Finance History: Campaign Data from the National Archives

10/04/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

INET’s new data archive of historical political finance records at the National Archives assembles all campaign finance reports filed by political parties and presidential candidates up to 1974, the year before the Federal Election Commission was established.

Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives: A Preface to the INET Edition

10/04/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

INET’s new data archive of historical political finance records at the National Archives marks a major step toward filling this factual void. This INET Working Paper outlines what users need to know to navigate the archive effectively and locate the data they require.

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do ‘Hallucinations’ Last?

10/02/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal of “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI); returns are diminishing rapidly; (ii) the AI-LLM industry and the larger U.S. economy are experiencing a speculative bubble, which is about to burst.

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?

10/02/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Wealth, Power, and Populism in India

10/01/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

India’s economic reforms of the 1990s promised growth and modernization. But what happens when growth is “jobless” and inequality deepens?

Why the World Bank’s Governance Reform Is Stuck – and How to Break the Stalemate

09/29/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

We examine the World Bank’s protracted and conflicted attempts at shareholding reform from 2008 to the present, situating them within the broader context of multipolarity and intensifying geopolitical rivalries.

How Western states keep the lead in the World Bank: Multipolarity, Geopolitics and the World Bank’s Conflicted Attempts at Shareholding Reform

09/29/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

This paper examines the World Bank’s protracted and conflicted attempts at shareholding reform from 2008 to the present, situating them within the broader context of multipolarity and intensifying geopolitical rivalries.

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