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Articles

Commentary, analysis, interviews, and research summaries by INET-affiliated writers.

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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

Topics

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Articles

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

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Want to Take on Financial and Governmental Corruption? Hire Women.

By Lynn Parramore

May 5, 2015

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How Sociologists Think About Inequality

May 1, 2015

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Why journal editors should commission history papers for their anniversary issues

By Beatrice Cherrier

Apr 23, 2015

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History as Personal Expression — a personal note

By Pedro G. Duarte

Apr 22, 2015

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Our Banking System is a Giant House of Cards

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 21, 2015

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New Climate-Economic Thinking

By Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman

Apr 21, 2015

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How to Recognize New Economic Thinking

By William Janeway

Apr 14, 2015

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We Must Lean Over Backwards

Apr 14, 2015

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Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election

By Robert Skidelsky

Apr 14, 2015

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New Economic Thinking vs. Hard Political Realities

By Kevin Gallagher

Apr 13, 2015

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False Economic Policy Clichés and General Elections

By Robert Skidelsky

Apr 13, 2015

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Is the Fed Making Inequality Worse? Yes, New Research Shows.

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 11, 2015

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Herr Schauble’s Foibles: The Eurozone Rebalancing Conundrum

By Robert W. Parenteau

Apr 10, 2015

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Marxian Economics: The Oldest Systems Theory Is New Again (or Always?)

By Ravi Bhandari

Apr 9, 2015

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Learning from Karl Polanyi

Apr 9, 2015

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Inequality or Living Standards: Which Matters More?

By Max Roser, Brian Nolan, and Stefan Thewissen

Apr 9, 2015

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Draghi’s Doom Loop(s): More than Just the Euthanasia of the Rentiers

By Robert W. Parenteau

Apr 7, 2015

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Tap... Tap... Tap... Is This Thing on?

Apr 5, 2015

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Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: new ideas for investment-led growth

By Mariana Mazzucato

Mar 19, 2015

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Sir John and Maynard Would Have Rejected the IS-LM Framework for Conducting Macroeconomic Analysis

By Mario Seccareccia and Marc Lavoie

Mar 19, 2015

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The Coming China Crisis

By Richard Vague

Mar 18, 2015

Rapid private-debt growth threw Japan into crisis in 1991 and did the same to the United States and Europe in 2008. China may be next.

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Get a TAN, Yanis: A Timely Alternative Financing Instrument for Greece

By Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 12, 2015

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals

Mar 10, 2015

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Why Understanding Money Matters in Greece

By Marshall Auerback and Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 6, 2015

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Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 6, 2015

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Drooping Green Shoots

By Lance Taylor

Mar 5, 2015

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Paul Krugman on the MIT History

By Pedro G. Duarte

Mar 2, 2015

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How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 2, 2015

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What does Yanis Varoufakis want?

By Floris Heukelom

Feb 26, 2015

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Finding Till Düppe

Feb 19, 2015

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Statement on Banking and Banking Regulation to The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

By Edward J. Kane

Feb 17, 2015

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The Wealthless Recovery

By Edward Wolff

Feb 16, 2015

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Why Don't Economists Go to Hollywood Parties?

By Pedro G. Duarte

Feb 15, 2015

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Reflexivity Between Micro and Macroeconomics

By Dennis J. Snower

Feb 10, 2015

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History of Policy Evaluation: A Few Questions

By Beatrice Cherrier

Feb 4, 2015

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What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don’t Tell You About Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 4, 2015

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The Brace is On

By Kevin Gallagher

Feb 3, 2015

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Yes indeed, we can blog it!

By Pedro G. Duarte

Jan 19, 2015

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Financial Deregulation: A Question of Efficiency or Distribution?

By Anton Korinek

Jan 13, 2015

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Bernard Maris (1946-2015), Charlie Hebdo and Incommensurability

Jan 11, 2015

As you may remember, I had decided to cease contributing to this blog a few months ago. Nevertheless, I thought I could use my completely illegitimate administrator rights to post one last piece dealing with the recent events in France

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Greece Shows the Limits of Austerity in the Eurozone. What Now?

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 9, 2015

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Surprising New Findings Point to “Perfect Storm” Brewing in Your Financial Future

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 7, 2015

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Behind Europe's Populist Backlash: The Hunger Games of Mainstream Economics

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 6, 2015

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By the Way, Why Does the History of the JEL Codes Matter ?

By Beatrice Cherrier

Dec 21, 2014

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A sparsity based model of bounded rationality

By Xavier Gabaix

Dec 17, 2014

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Stiglitz: Economics Has to Come to Terms with Wealth and Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 15, 2014

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How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 8, 2014

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They called it a sunspot

By Beatrice Cherrier and Aurélien Saïdi

Dec 7, 2014

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Why is the U.S. Economy Underperforming? Rising Inequality is the Key.

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 18, 2014

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Why Keynes is Important Today

By Peter Temin and David Vines

Oct 28, 2014