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

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The Economics of the Affordable Care Act

Jan 17, 2017

Any effort to replace the Affordable Care Act will be confronted by the same structural imbalances in the health care economy that the legislation’s authors faced

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INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously

Dec 29, 2016

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

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Stiglitz: Bad News Awaits America's Workers

Dec 28, 2016

Campaign promises aside, the policies favored by President-elect Donal Trump are likely to bring more pain than gain to  working-class Americans 

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The Geopolitics of Populism

Dec 13, 2016

The big question in Asian countries right now is what lesson to take from Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, and from the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, in which British voters opted to leave the European Union. Unfortunately, the focus is not where it should be: geopolitical change.

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Will Trump Bring Neoliberalism’s Apocalypse, or Merely a New Iteration?

Nov 30, 2016

Real existing neoliberalism as a set of social facts distinct from a purist ideology has proven remarkably adaptable and politically resilient 

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Trump’s Win is a Warning: Europe Urgently Needs a New Deal

Nov 30, 2016

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policies allowed the United States to avoid the perils of right-wing populism that plunged Europe into war in the 1930s — Europe should learn from his example

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Black Lives Still Matter

Nov 12, 2016

Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, shares a vision of how to bring economic opportunity to women of color

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Cook: Race-blind economics distorts data

Oct 27, 2016

Scholar sees Institute for New Economic Thinking conference as an important opportunity to discuss issues of race and economics, and of Detroit’s past and future