Articles

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

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Nobel Win Doesn’t Equate To Policy Prescriptions

By David Colander

Oct 21, 2014

The “keys under the streetlight story” is well known among economists, but in case you haven’t heard it, it goes like this.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

By William Lazonick

Oct 19, 2014

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Adam Smith's first - and last! - book: what rational choice?

By Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Oct 18, 2014

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Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

By William Lazonick

Oct 16, 2014

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How Financialization Leads To Income Inequality

By Ken-Hou Lin and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Oct 16, 2014

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A History of the JEL Codes: Classifying Economics During the War [Part 1]

By Beatrice Cherrier

Oct 15, 2014

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The IMF and Human Development: Little Progress and Worrisome Trends

By Alex Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, and Lawrence Peter King

Oct 13, 2014

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The man who will not win the Nobel

By Tiago Mata

Oct 9, 2014

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Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe

By Michele Alacevich

Oct 1, 2014

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The torch that wouldn't burn - UCLA in 1968

By Tiago Mata

Sep 29, 2014

Employment as University Professor is by comparison with the grind of the professional world a peaceful, perhaps even relaxing, assignment.

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New Research Shows Pollution Inequality in America is Even Worse Than Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Sep 28, 2014

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The Flummery of Capital-Requirement Repairs Since The Crisis

By Edward J. Kane

Sep 15, 2014

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To Boost Investment, End SEC Rule Encouraging Buybacks

By William Lazonick

Sep 14, 2014

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All Together Now?: Inequality and Growth in US Metro Areas

By Chris Benner

Sep 10, 2014

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How to Make Economics Students More Critical and Adaptive Thinkers?

Aug 14, 2014