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

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America Last

Jun 8, 2017

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord sets the US economy back

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The Moral Burden on Economists

Apr 13, 2017

In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.

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Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs

Apr 6, 2017

Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions 

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Debating Household Debt

Mar 8, 2017

INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality

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Meaningful Work: A Radical Proposal

Mar 8, 2017

To mark International Women’s Day, Neva Goodwin argues that the crisis of income insecurity and longstanding gender inequality require a form of universal basic income that recognizes and rewards the value of household labor

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At Sea Without an Anchor

Feb 10, 2017

A presentation from The Economics of Post-Factual Democracy, the first annual conference of The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at The University of Copenhagen

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Jayadev: TPP is Dead, but its Legacy Lives On

Feb 10, 2017

Institute scholar Arjun Jayadev argues that while TPP is dead, its damaging legacy on intellectual property rights is likely to shape future bilateral trade agreements

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Remembering Tony Atkinson as the Architect of Modern Public Economics

Jan 19, 2017

Beatrice Cherrier remembers Tony Atkinson’s influential intellectual, educational and institutional contribution to the field of public economics

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The Jobs Legacy of the Obama Presidency

Jan 19, 2017

Viewed in historical context, the weak recovery from the 2008 crisis has been slow and painful, but a sub-5% unemployment rate and healthy job and wage growth will be among the most important legacies Obama leaves to the next president

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A Moral Challenge to Economists

Jan 1, 2017

Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11