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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Articles

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

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Let Them Drink Pollution?

By James K. Boyce

Jan 26, 2016

The tragic crisis in Flint, Michigan, where residents have been poisoned by lead contamination, is not just about drinking water. And it’s not just about Flint. It’s about race and class, and the stark contradiction between the American dream of equal rights and opportunity for all and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.

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Friendly Fire

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 20, 2016

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German Wage Moderation and the Eurozone Crisis: A Critical Analysis

By Servaas Storm

Jan 8, 2016

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Start-Up Governments, or Can Bureaucracies Innovate?

By Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo

Jan 4, 2016

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The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 22, 2015

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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits

By William Lazonick

Dec 21, 2015

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The Scientific Limits of Understanding Complex Social Phenomena

By Alexander Krauss

Dec 17, 2015

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The Gift of Deregulation

By Thomas Ferguson

Dec 14, 2015

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Renminbi to the Rescue?

Dec 10, 2015

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How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 10, 2015

Can education stop the country’s backward slide?

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The SDR is the Catalyst for China’s Currency Internationalization

Dec 7, 2015

There is a deeper story to be told about the inclusion of the Renminbi.

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Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model

By William Lazonick and Öner Tulum

Dec 3, 2015

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Replication and Transparency in Economic Research

By Jan H. Höffler

Dec 3, 2015

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RMB in SDR, Now What?

By Perry G. Mehrling

Dec 2, 2015

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The American Dual Economy: Race, Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion

Nov 30, 2015