Articles

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

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Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding

Mar 9, 2017

Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book

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Euroland: Will the Netherlands be the next domino to fall?

Feb 13, 2017

Austerity has nurtured resentments that will likely make the populist right PVV the biggest winner in the March 15 election — but without the majority or the allies needed to govern

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Carbon Dividends: The Bipartisan Key to Climate Policy?

Feb 13, 2017

The practical question in Washington today is not whether regulations will go, but whether anything will replace them

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Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America's Crisis

Jan 23, 2017

Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand

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Why Economists Should Think of Themselves as Plumbers

Jan 23, 2017

From physicists to engineers to meds to plumbers: thoughts on Esther Duflo’s ASSA 2017 lecture on rediscovering the last art of economics

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Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State

Jan 5, 2017

Evidence thus far questions the assumption that robotics are eliminating jobs. INET Senior Vice President for Programs Rick McGahey says the UBI debate should focus on the long-term weakening of labor’s bargaining power

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A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese Contradictions

Jan 3, 2017

Beijing’s leaders face a critical dilemma over a credit boom that imperils China’s prospects for a smooth transition to a sustainable economic path

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Inequality in the United States: A Darkening Horizon

Dec 19, 2016

Institute for New Economic Thinking-backed research into inequality explores how taxes and government policy have contributed to deepening economic inequality   

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Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty

Dec 19, 2016

In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world