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How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of the dismal science

Melanie Xue shares insights from her research into the parallel history of women and the intelligentsia in Chinese society.

INET is invested in identifying the complex global interactions that influence poverty and development with a focus on strategies that have proven successful in promoting equitable growth, promoting capabilities, and reducing poverty.

Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf discusses his just-released book

The market can’t save us.

How can we quantify the wage share implied by varying degrees and types of participation to Global Value Chains?

On the passing away of Victoria Chick

If primary commodities and mid-to-high-tech manufacturing products are produced by industries with different wage shares, there are distributive implications of deepening trade integration with certain regions with respect to others.

Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless

On the passing away of Luigi Pasinetti

Generosity or greed? The roots and fruits of venture capital might not be what you have been led to believe.

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility

The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public.

If time is money, then why is it often ignored in relation to inequality and gender?

Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.