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

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Are Our Earnings Really Our 'Just Deserts'?

Oct 5, 2016

A new paper by Nancy Folbre offers an evidence-based refutation of ‘just-world’ assumptions

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How economic policy drives European (dis)integration

Sep 22, 2016

The Eurozone is (quietly) disintegrating as ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ countries continue on paths of economic divergence. That disintegration is reinforced by self-defeating policies shaped by a macroeconomic model that mimics and reinforces the divisions between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’

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The Private Debt Crisis

Sep 21, 2016

China is drowning in it. The whole world has too much of it. History suggests: This won’t end well.