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

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Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

Apr 7, 2021

Hedge fund managers are pushing American firms to play Wall Street games instead of investing in technologies of the future. China doesn’t have that problem.

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Missing Voters and Missing Unemployed Black Workers

Mar 3, 2021

Like Republicans with political polls, unemployed Black workers are underrepresented in federal employment data because of non-response.

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Paper: Structural Transformation, Economic Development and Industrialization in Post-Covid-19 Africa

Jan 14, 2021

While Africa’s “premature deindustrialization” appears to be the dominant global narrative, recent analysis of the data suggests that de-industrialization is not the common experience for the majority of African countries

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How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem

Dec 16, 2020

Trump’s approach largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.

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James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance

Nov 9, 2020

When segregationists fought against school integration, libertarian economist James Buchanan saw an opportunity for his private education plan