Articles

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

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Larry Summers: Reagan’s Tax Plan Was Better Than Trump’s

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 20, 2017

Summers discusses inequality, the GOP tax plan, and our economic future

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Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality

By Lance Taylor

Dec 15, 2017

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How Academic Conformity Punishes Women—and Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas

By Marcella Corsi, Carlo D'Ippoliti, and Giulia Zacchia

Dec 14, 2017

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Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 12, 2017

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Why Research and Innovation Are Vital for Southern European Economies—and Eurozone Survival

By Daniela Palma

Dec 11, 2017

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Nothing Natural About the Natural Rate of Unemployment

By Edmund Phelps

Nov 24, 2017

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How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory

By Shannon Monnat and David L. Brown

Nov 16, 2017

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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

How Germany, the EU and the economics field itself suffer from myopia—and what we can do about it

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Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now

By ​Gonçalo Fonseca

Oct 20, 2017

What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?

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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