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

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INET to G20: Bank Regulation Can't Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose

Mar 28, 2019

At a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees

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Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game

Mar 11, 2019

As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.

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Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills

Feb 20, 2019

Pharmaceutical pushers like Purdue “couldn’t have done their dirty work” without America’s increasingly unbalanced economy

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Science and Subterfuge in Economics

Feb 17, 2019

John Kenneth Galbraith noted in 1973 that establishment economics had become the “invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public.” If anything, economists’ embrace of that role has grown stronger since then.

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Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion

Dec 5, 2018

Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.

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​Cheap Talk on Race and Xenophobia Keeps Americans from Confronting Economic and Political Peril

Nov 2, 2018

Adolph Reed, who researches race and politics, warns that “identitarian” politics can conceal the structural inequities of capitalism

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Big Money—Not Political Tribalism—Drives US Elections

Oct 31, 2018

Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.

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Joseph Stiglitz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Social and Economic Justice

Sep 25, 2018

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and the second-most-famous democratic socialist in America sit down together