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

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New Evidence Shows Gender Inequality in Top Incomes

Sep 29, 2016

Research by INET grantees Atkinson, Casarico and Voitchovsky shows that women are starkly underrepresented in top earning brackets across a range of different countries

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‘Advanced Microeconomics for the Critical Mind’ Returns in October

Sep 20, 2016

We are happy to announce that we are offering a second run of the online course which aims to introduce graduate students and interested persons generally to the basic methods and topics of standard microeconomics as taught at the Ph.D. level — with a bit of ‘attitude’!

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Who Has Space for Renewables?

Sep 19, 2016

Estimated space requirements for solar energy sufficient to power the entire world are reassuringly trivial, at 0.5-1% of global land area. For individual countries however, the challenges vary greatly, reflecting dramatic differences in population density.