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

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China vs. the Washington Consensus

Nov 13, 2017

The 2008 financial crisis was a shock to faith in entirely free financial markets. But the neoliberal assumptions underlying the previously dominant “Washington Consensus” continue to inform much Western commentary on China’s economy.

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

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

Aug 28, 2017

In this episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Robert Johnson, about the political economy, inequality, and the failings of our technocratic institutions.