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

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Trade in the Time of Trump

Apr 8, 2025

Trump ran in both 2016 and 2024 on a promise to reverse the deindustrialization caused by globalization and free trade, using tariffs as his main tool. But the critical question now is: Can it work?

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How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It

Jan 28, 2025

New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?

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How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics

Jan 21, 2025

If there is no universally accepted outside authority to tell us how to judge theories then knowledge is only going to progress by means of debate

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Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments

Nov 18, 2024

Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop

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The Second Coming? Trump vs. Biden

May 17, 2024

How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election approaches?