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

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The Moral Burden on Economists

Apr 13, 2017

In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.

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The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences

Mar 20, 2017

In the age of Adam Smith, an economics that masqueraded as natural science and excluded the human condition actually suited the interests of the landed and the wealthy

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Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding

Mar 9, 2017

Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book