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

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Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners

Oct 27, 2016

Offshoring manufacturing may have hurt many working people in America, but professionals and intellectual property have been robustly protected

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Congratulations to Economics Nobel Laureates Hart and Holmström

Oct 10, 2016

Economists honored for their work on contract theory, which has important implications for issues such as executive compensation that have been a focus of Institute research

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Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory Before the Next Crisis

Sep 23, 2016

While many countries throughout the world have faced severe financial crises over the last decades, and while the Japanese stagnation and the 1997 Asian financial crisis did induce some additional interest for the introduction of banking and finance in macroeconomic theory, it is only with the advent of the US subprime financial crisis that macroeconomic and monetary theories put forward by mainstream economists have started to be questioned.

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Why gender remains a central focus in tackling economic inequality

Sep 22, 2016

Remarks by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde remind us why gender remains a major research and policy focus for the Fund — and for the Institute for New Economic Thinking

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European Ruling Highlights Apple's Corrupted Business Model

Aug 31, 2016

There is much for U.S. authorities to learn from the European example of forcing corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, but more far-reaching oversight of executives’ allocation of resources is also required

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Monetary Policy Family Reunion at Jackson Hole

Aug 31, 2016

Like any family reunion, the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium may have been as significant for what was said as it was for what was not discussed

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Minsky's Many Moments

Aug 5, 2016

The Economist pays tribute to Hyman Minsky, whose ideas on financial instability have not been given the attention and prominence they deserve

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What’s the Problem With Protectionism?

Jul 19, 2016

One thing is now certain about the upcoming presidential election in the United States: the next president will not be a committed free trader.