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

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The Coming China Crisis

Mar 18, 2015

Rapid private-debt growth threw Japan into crisis in 1991 and did the same to the United States and Europe in 2008. China may be next.

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Bernard Maris (1946-2015), Charlie Hebdo and Incommensurability

Jan 11, 2015

As you may remember, I had decided to cease contributing to this blog a few months ago. Nevertheless, I thought I could use my completely illegitimate administrator rights to post one last piece dealing with the recent events in France

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Income and Wealth Distribution in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Oct 26, 2014

Household economic surveys, such as the German Socio-Economic Panel, notoriously underestimate the degree of income and wealth inequality at the upper end of the distribution.

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Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe

Oct 1, 2014

The question of underdevelopment and development policies in postwar Europe will be the theme of a workshop organized by Michele Alacevich, Sandrine Kott, and Mark Mazower, at Columbia University, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Friday, October 10, 2014. The program is available here. Below are some of Alacevich’s insights on the issue leading up the event: