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

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America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy

Jan 6, 2017

A concentration of wealth and power that created a twin crisis of representation — in politics, and in expertise — set the stage for Donald Trump’s election victory, and has put America’s founding principles at risk

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Reality Check: What Economists Talk About When They Talk About the Chinese Economy

Dec 23, 2016

Beneath the heated political rhetoric over U.S.-China economic ties lies an increasingly complex reality

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If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous

Dec 22, 2016

Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it