AI, Antitrust & Privacy
We typically view competition as a positive force that lowers prices, improves quality and service, and increases variety. However, competition can sometimes be toxic.
AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse
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
Union membership is at its lowest level in a century. Why, despite viral organizing campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks, has union density flatlined?
Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia
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
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?
The most essential work in society isn’t accounted for in economic statistics.
Climate change, firms and aggregate productivity
Our paper uses a general equilibrium framework to examine the effects of temperature on firm-level demand, productivity and input allocative efficiency. Using data from Italian firms and detailed climate data, it uncovers a sizeable negative effect of extreme temperatures on firm-level productivity. Based on these estimates, the model generates aggregate productivity losses from local temperature fluctuations that are higher than previously thought, ranging from 0.60% to 6.82% depending on the scenario and the extent of adaptation.
On Becoming a Purposeful Warrior
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
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.
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