Articles

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

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Get a TAN, Yanis: A Timely Alternative Financing Instrument for Greece

By Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 12, 2015

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals

Mar 10, 2015

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Why Understanding Money Matters in Greece

By Marshall Auerback and Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 6, 2015

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Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 6, 2015

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Drooping Green Shoots

By Lance Taylor

Mar 5, 2015

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Paul Krugman on the MIT History

By Pedro G. Duarte

Mar 2, 2015

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How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 2, 2015

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What does Yanis Varoufakis want?

By Floris Heukelom

Feb 26, 2015

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Finding Till Düppe

By Yann Giraud

Feb 19, 2015

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Statement on Banking and Banking Regulation to The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

By Edward J. Kane

Feb 17, 2015

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The Wealthless Recovery

By Edward Wolff

Feb 16, 2015

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Why Don't Economists Go to Hollywood Parties?

By Pedro G. Duarte

Feb 15, 2015

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Reflexivity Between Micro and Macroeconomics

By Dennis J. Snower

Feb 10, 2015

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History of Policy Evaluation: A Few Questions

By Beatrice Cherrier

Feb 4, 2015

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What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don’t Tell You About Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 4, 2015

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The Brace is On

By Kevin Gallagher

Feb 3, 2015

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Yes indeed, we can blog it!

By Pedro G. Duarte

Jan 19, 2015

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Financial Deregulation: A Question of Efficiency or Distribution?

By Anton Korinek

Jan 13, 2015

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

By Yann Giraud

Jan 11, 2015

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Greece Shows the Limits of Austerity in the Eurozone. What Now?

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 9, 2015

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Surprising New Findings Point to “Perfect Storm” Brewing in Your Financial Future

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 7, 2015

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Behind Europe's Populist Backlash: The Hunger Games of Mainstream Economics

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 6, 2015

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By the Way, Why Does the History of the JEL Codes Matter ?

By Beatrice Cherrier

Dec 21, 2014

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A sparsity based model of bounded rationality

By Xavier Gabaix

Dec 17, 2014

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Stiglitz: Economics Has to Come to Terms with Wealth and Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 15, 2014

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How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 8, 2014

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They called it a sunspot

By Beatrice Cherrier and Aurélien Saïdi

Dec 7, 2014

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Why is the U.S. Economy Underperforming? Rising Inequality is the Key.

By Lynn Parramore

Nov 18, 2014

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Why Keynes is Important Today

By Peter Temin and David Vines

Oct 28, 2014

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Income and Wealth Distribution in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective

By Till van Treeck

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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Nobel Win Doesn’t Equate To Policy Prescriptions

By David Colander

Oct 21, 2014

The “keys under the streetlight story” is well known among economists, but in case you haven’t heard it, it goes like this.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

By William Lazonick

Oct 19, 2014

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Adam Smith's first - and last! - book: what rational choice?

By Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Oct 18, 2014

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Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

By William Lazonick

Oct 16, 2014

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How Financialization Leads To Income Inequality

By Ken-Hou Lin and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Oct 16, 2014

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A History of the JEL Codes: Classifying Economics During the War [Part 1]

By Beatrice Cherrier

Oct 15, 2014

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The IMF and Human Development: Little Progress and Worrisome Trends

By Alex Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, and Lawrence Peter King

Oct 13, 2014

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The man who will not win the Nobel

By Tiago Mata

Oct 9, 2014

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Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe

By Michele Alacevich

Oct 1, 2014

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The torch that wouldn't burn - UCLA in 1968

By Tiago Mata

Sep 29, 2014

Employment as University Professor is by comparison with the grind of the professional world a peaceful, perhaps even relaxing, assignment.

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New Research Shows Pollution Inequality in America is Even Worse Than Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Sep 28, 2014

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The Flummery of Capital-Requirement Repairs Since The Crisis

By Edward J. Kane

Sep 15, 2014

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To Boost Investment, End SEC Rule Encouraging Buybacks

By William Lazonick

Sep 14, 2014

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All Together Now?: Inequality and Growth in US Metro Areas

By Chris Benner

Sep 10, 2014

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How to Make Economics Students More Critical and Adaptive Thinkers?

Aug 14, 2014

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What's Holding Back Reform in Economics?

Jul 31, 2014

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Pasinetti on Institutional Forces and the Discipline of Economics

By Thomas Ferguson

Jul 29, 2014

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Destabilizing A Stable Crisis

By Matheus Grasselli

Jul 28, 2014

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Top incomes and the glass ceiling

By Tony Atkinson

Jul 17, 2014

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Self-Control and Public Pensions

By Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant

Jul 13, 2014

Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.