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

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Do U.S. Economists Ignore Inequality?

Sep 14, 2016

Painting economics as blind to inequality may be overstating matters, but for too long efforts to explain it have been self limiting. Now, new economic thinkers are willing to pose uncomfortable questions.

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There Isn’t Really a ‘Mainstream’ at All

Aug 11, 2016

There is a mix of common-sense opinions, political prejudices, conventional business practice, and pragmatic rules of thumb, supported in an ad hoc, opportunistic way by bits and pieces of economic theory.