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

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Many Politicians Voting for the TARP Bailout Protected Their Own Wealth

Dec 16, 2016

Amid heightened focus on conflicts of interests, new research shows how legislators’ votes on the 2008 bank bailout tracked with the exposure to peril of their personal stock portfolios

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The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization

Dec 1, 2016

Flows of goods and services, people and capital have overwhelmed the ability of political processes to accommodate them

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Trade Liberalization After the U.S. Election

Nov 16, 2016

The TPP is dead, as is the assumption that future free-trade agreements can be negotiated by experts alone

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Why Economic Recovery Requires Rethinking Capitalism

Nov 15, 2016

Mission-oriented public investment is vital to spur a revival of private-sector investment

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Secular stagnation, bubbles and the legacy of the contraceptive pill

Oct 28, 2016

Oral contraception created a population that, today, is disproportionately inclined to save, resulting in low to negative real interest rates. Excess eurozone savings can only be accomodated by raising sovereign debt levels

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How Gender Roles, Implicit Bias and Stereotypes Affect Women and Girls

Oct 27, 2016

Young women of all races and gender identities are powering movements from Black Lives Matter to immigration reform to reproductive justice to minimum wage and beyond. Researchers need to support their progress with metrics that capture the spirit they are building

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James Boyce Wins 2016 Leontief Award for Work on Environmental Inequality

Oct 11, 2016

Institute grantee Boyce cited for integrating ‘ecological, developmental and justice-oriented approaches’ into economics

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VP Biden Cites Lazonick in Critique of Stock Buybacks

Sep 28, 2016

Vice President warns that corporate stock buybacks restrict America’s long-term prosperity, citing the research of Institute grantee William Lazonick who has long argued the same