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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy
The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors. In fact, European leaders are finally beginning to reveal the true nature of the ongoing debt dispute, and the answer is not pleasant: it is about power and democracy much more than money and economics.
Thoughts On Skidelsky's Rant Against The Current Economics Curriculum
The extremely wise Robert Skidelsky has an excellent rant against Anglo-Saxon economics departments
Fixing The Financial System: Adam Smith Vs. Jeremy Bentham
How do we create a “change in culture”?
New Climate-Economic Thinking
Learning from Karl Polanyi
The old political-economic thinking of Karl Polanyi was never properly absorbed into “mainstream” North Atlantic economics: recognizing that land, labor, and finance are not really “commodities” returns institutions and social processes to the center of economic analysis.
The Coming China Crisis
Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?
Rana Dasgupta shares his view of the contradictions and tensions of India’s economic and political scenes.
Drooping Green Shoots
Paul Krugman on the MIT History
What does Yanis Varoufakis want?
Finding Till Düppe
The Wealthless Recovery