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

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Can “It” Happen Again? Defining the Battlefield for a Theoretical Revolution in Economics

Feb 27, 2017

As part of our “Experts on Trial Series”, Antonella Palumbo argues for stripping away ‘scientific’ shibboleths that mask social and political choices

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'People Have Had Enough of Experts'

Feb 6, 2017

As part of our ongoing symposium “Experts on Trial”, Professor Sheila Dow argues that if voters have grown contemptuous of economists’ expertise, that’s because economics has been misrepresented as a technical subject separate from politics and moral judgments

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Is Inequality a Political Choice?

Feb 3, 2017

Research by INET-affiliated scholars shows the US lags far behind its peers on inclusive growth, suggesting inequality is not an inevitable consequence of globalization and technology