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

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The Real Story of Detroit's Collapse

Jul 23, 2013

“How could Michigan officials possibly talk about cutting the average $19,000-a-year pension benefit for municipal workers while reaffirming their pledge of$283 million in taxpayer money to a professional hockey stadium?

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On the Link between Inequality, Credit, and Macroeconomic Crises

Jun 12, 2013

To what extant do existing mainstream models properly address issues such as heterogeneity and interactions, which are considered central ingredients to understand economic crises as emergent, endogenous phenomena.

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Middle-Out Economics: A Truer Form of Capitalism

Jun 10, 2013

“Four men sat at a table. Raised sixty floors above the city, they did not speak loudly as one speaks from a height in the freedom of air and space; they kept their voices low, as befitted a cellar.”