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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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The Zero-Sum Economy
The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income and status. But the deeper problem is that more and more economic activity performs a merely distributive function.
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The Rise of Hedge Fund Activism
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Austerity Caused Brexit
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Boycott the Journal Rankings
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Ending the Wild West of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Clear rules and sound principles for debt restructuring would level the playing field between developing countries and creditors
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Reproducibility Crisis Reaches All Randomised Controlled Trials
The social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials – though they face more assumptions and biases than commonly thought.