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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Trump Election and the Future of U.S. Global Leadership
Surviving the geopolitical and economic challenges of the coming years requires a world order less vulnerable to the vagaries of U.S. elections
Black Lives Still Matter
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Obama’s People and The African Americans: The Language of Othering
Language has always been a way to divide, conquer, classify, and control, but it also helps to constitute who we are and what we think.
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The Global Trade Slowdown is both True and Non-trivial
Economists offer widely different explanations for the decline in trade between nations, in a debate that remains unresolved but is increasingly urgent
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Baby Bonds: A Plan for Black/White Wealth Equality Conservatives Could Love?
Darrick Hamilton calls for spreading the benefits of asset-ownership to all Americans.
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Yellen Challenges Economists Amid Elusive Great Recovery
Like the Great Depression and the stagflation of the ’70s, the anemic growth of the U.S. economy can’t be understood or remedied without changes in economists’ thinking
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Are Our Earnings Really Our 'Just Deserts'?
A new paper by Nancy Folbre offers an evidence-based refutation of ‘just-world’ assumptions
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Johnson: The Fed is losing its aura of expertise
Past failures, present uncertainty, and a challenging political environment have vastly complicated the central bank’s task, says Institute President Rob Johnson
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The Private Debt Crisis
China is drowning in it. The whole world has too much of it. History suggests: This won’t end well.
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‘Advanced Microeconomics for the Critical Mind’ Returns in October
We are happy to announce that we are offering a second run of the online course which aims to introduce graduate students and interested persons generally to the basic methods and topics of standard microeconomics as taught at the Ph.D. level — with a bit of ‘attitude’!
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The link between health spending and life expectancy: The US is an outlier
The US stands out as an outlier: the US spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer but actually shorter than in other countries that spend far less.