Articles

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

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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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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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How Gender Roles, Implicit Bias and Stereotypes Affect Women and Girls

Oct 27, 2016

Young women of all races and gender identities are powering movements from Black Lives Matter to immigration reform to reproductive justice to minimum wage and beyond. Researchers need to support their progress with metrics that capture the spirit they are building

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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 

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James Boyce Wins 2016 Leontief Award for Work on Environmental Inequality

Oct 11, 2016

Institute grantee Boyce cited for integrating ‘ecological, developmental and justice-oriented approaches’ into economics

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Three Things to Know to Hold Wells Fargo Accountable

Oct 11, 2016

Justice requires that the media, policy makers, and the public understand why corporations engage in misconduct and fraud

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The Nobel Prize in Economics: Time for a Return to Social Democracy

Sep 26, 2016

An award created as a concession to market-minded bankers needs to recognize the centrality of social-democratic policies to the wellbeing of industrialized economies

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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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Monetary Policy in a Post-Crisis World: Beyond the Taylor Rule

Sep 9, 2016

We know about emergency lending, but what we are missing is the macroeconomic framework to guide a new rule for stabilization policy