Articles

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

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How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory

By Shannon Monnat and David L. Brown

Nov 16, 2017

From the Rust Belt to Rural America, Economic and Social Distress Helped Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Outcome

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China vs. the Washington Consensus

By Adair Turner

Nov 13, 2017

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The Dark Side of Discrimination in the Economics Profession

By Giulia Zacchia

Nov 3, 2017

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The Big Questions Are Back

By Jay Pocklington

Nov 3, 2017

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Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now

By ​Gonçalo Fonseca

Oct 20, 2017

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What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 20, 2017

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Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?

By Perry G. Mehrling

Oct 14, 2017

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“Worse Than Big Tobacco”: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 10, 2017

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America’s Rising, Invisible Debt

By Robert Dugger and Daniel Blitz

Oct 6, 2017

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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators

By Lynn Parramore

Oct 5, 2017

The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense

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Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us

By Anamaria Lopez

Sep 12, 2017

The path of austerity could spread economic pain and social woes far beyond the Caribbean island, says public debt expert Martin Guzman 

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Political Economy, Technocracy, and the New Gilded Age

By Demetri Kofinas

Aug 28, 2017

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Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks

By Thomas Ferguson

Aug 24, 2017

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Surprise: The 1% Is Overrepresented in the Ivy League

By Jack Gao

Aug 11, 2017

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Economic Models That Are Costing Us All

By Alex Izurieta

Aug 11, 2017