Ineteconomics

AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse

07/07/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Without strong privacy laws and aligned incentives, increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
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America’s Broken Union System

07/02/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Union membership is at its lowest level in a century. Why, despite viral organizing campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks, has union density flatlined?

NY Times Featured Fred Ledley’s INET Working Paper on Funding for FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals

07/01/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

New York Times

Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia

06/30/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Dr. David Mussington, cybersecurity expert with two decades of experience, reveals why the clock is ticking on U.S. vulnerabilities under Trump.
As international tensions increase, cyberwarfare and ransomware attacks loom—and America’s digital defenses face a perfect storm of foreign attacks, criminal behavior, and self-inflicted damage.

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Pharmaceutical Innovation: What Real Evidence Shows

06/26/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Has the Inflation Reduction Act hindered pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence shows that the pharma industry can strategically manage disruptive change.
“How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?”
--Clayton Christensen

What Counts as Productive?

06/25/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

The most essential work in society isn’t accounted for in economic statistics.

On Becoming a Purposeful Warrior

06/23/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

In this episode of Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson discusses her book The Purposeful Warrior, which explores choosing courage over fear and standing up for democracy.

Behind the Tariff Dilemma: Kalecki on Structuralist Development Policy

06/23/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kalecki’s seminal lecture in Mexico on
financing economic development, Jan Toporowski's INET Working Paper considers the relevance of
structuralism and Kalecki’s view of economic development for today.

Kalecki and the Stucturalist View of Economic Development

06/23/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

Kalecki challenged the structuralist view by pointing to the internal social class barriers to development, and the need to assure supplies of basic wage goods in order to avoid inflationary pressures that could derail the development process.

CNN cited Fred Ledley’s INET Working Paper on the NIH’s Seed Funding into FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals

06/16/2025 Ineteconomics Analysis

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