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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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INET Memo to G20: The Trouble with Economic Research Evaluation

May 28, 2018

In a memo for the G20, INET calls for changes to the evaluation of economic research to ensure that economic theory—and policy—is more rigorous, innovative, and in service to society. 

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BRICS to Play a Leading Role in Driving Future Global Economic Growth

Apr 20, 2018

But the five countries must still support greater investment in other emerging and developing economies

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Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News

Apr 13, 2018

Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy

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With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?

Feb 26, 2018

By pushing workers into precarious, part-time work, “Third Way” governments of the past 20 years helped to create the disturbing economic trend that’s vexing orthodox economists

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How Pseudoscientific Rankings Are Distorting Research

Jan 18, 2018

The shocking—but illustrative—example of how an Italian government agency concocted statistics to evaluate scholarship, hid them from the public, and masqueraded them as science. It’s a growing phenomenon

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How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement

Jan 15, 2018

Behind towering figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were the taxi dispatchers, pharmacists, grocers, and other small business owners who were instrumental in making civil rights a reality.