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

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The Jobs Legacy of the Obama Presidency

Jan 19, 2017

Viewed in historical context, the weak recovery from the 2008 crisis has been slow and painful, but a sub-5% unemployment rate and healthy job and wage growth will be among the most important legacies Obama leaves to the next president

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A Moral Challenge to Economists

Jan 1, 2017

Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11

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INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously

Dec 29, 2016

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric