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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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The “Fortune 500” of 1812
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country and possibly more than all other countries combined.
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After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
The most crucial issue in European policy, and one on which no big party campaigned and no important public discussion took place, was the fiscal policy stance for the next few years.
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Oil and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: A Reanalysis
An excerpt from Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David N. Gibbs, published by Columbia University Press (2024)