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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
European Ruling Highlights Apple's Corrupted Business Model
There is much for U.S. authorities to learn from the European example of forcing corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, but more far-reaching oversight of executives’ allocation of resources is also required
The (Impossible) Repo Trinity
The strange fate of economists' interest in collective decision-making
How economists turned to the study of collective decision-making after World War II, faced many impossibilities, and lost interest after solving them
Stark New Evidence on How Money Shapes America’s Elections
Oversights of two generations of social scientists have weakened democracy.
Carbon Decoupling?
Police Shootings, Economics, and Empirics
In the past month, analysts from all disciplines have tried to make sense out of shooting deaths of blacks by police and also ambush attacks of police.
What’s the Problem With Protectionism?
One thing is now certain about the upcoming presidential election in the United States: the next president will not be a committed free trader.
Crisis After Brexit: Let us put an end to the old Europe of denigrators
No, it’s not bureaucracy that is to blame - It’s the EU that has a problem, because urged by Germany it has pushed a kind of naive globalization, the outgrowths of which contribute to the upswing of dim-witted populists. Not only in the EU. Time for a new paradigm.
Spain: The politics of austerity and deflation
An election has failed to resolve a political deadlock that coincides with long-term economic stagnation
Brexit and the Future of Europe
In Memoriam, Jack Treynor
Economists are Divided over Brexit
Some predict global economic catastrophe if Britain votes to leave the EU, others foresee a more limited set of consequences — and some see a telling trend in the public ignoring economists’ warnings
A New Economic Paradigm to Fight Populism
Globalisation was once considered a doctrine of salvation - but it has produced too many losers and created a breeding ground for heralds of simplistic truths. It is high time for a new doctrine.
From Keynes to Lucas, and Beyond
Rebirth of the School: Why We Invested in the History of Economic Thought Website
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