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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You
Despite the moral assurance and personal flattery that meritocracy offers to the successful, it ought to be abandoned both as a belief about how the world works and as a general social ideal.
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Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again
Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking
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Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game
As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.