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

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What’s the Problem With Protectionism?

Jul 19, 2016

One thing is now certain about the upcoming presidential election in the United States: the next president will not be a committed free trader.

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Crisis After Brexit: Let us put an end to the old Europe of denigrators

Jul 5, 2016

No, it’s not bureaucracy that is to blame - It’s the EU that has a problem, because urged by Germany it has pushed a kind of naive globalization, the outgrowths of which contribute to the upswing of dim-witted populists. Not only in the EU. Time for a new paradigm.

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Spain: The politics of austerity and deflation

Jul 4, 2016

An election has failed to resolve a political deadlock that coincides with long-term economic stagnation