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

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Trade Liberalization After the U.S. Election

Nov 16, 2016

The TPP is dead, as is the assumption that future free-trade agreements can be negotiated by experts alone

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Secular stagnation, bubbles and the legacy of the contraceptive pill

Oct 28, 2016

Oral contraception created a population that, today, is disproportionately inclined to save, resulting in low to negative real interest rates. Excess eurozone savings can only be accomodated by raising sovereign debt levels

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Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race

Oct 18, 2016

William Darity, Jr. has a new key to unlocking the mystery of inequality: stratification economics.

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Turner: Why Macroeconomic Policies are Failing

Sep 29, 2016

In a Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit Debate, Institute board chairman Adair Turner explains why extraordinary monetary policy isn’t working

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VP Biden Cites Lazonick in Critique of Stock Buybacks

Sep 28, 2016

Vice President warns that corporate stock buybacks restrict America’s long-term prosperity, citing the research of Institute grantee William Lazonick who has long argued the same

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Guardian’s Wisconsin investigation points to big money’s systemic distortion of U.S. democracy

Sep 15, 2016

Newspaper’s probe amplifies questions raised by our research into the impact of corporate donations onU.S. elections

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Do U.S. Economists Ignore Inequality?

Sep 14, 2016

Painting economics as blind to inequality may be overstating matters, but for too long efforts to explain it have been self limiting. Now, new economic thinkers are willing to pose uncomfortable questions.