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

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Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction

Oct 4, 2018

Economists who dismiss inequality as a problem secondary to poverty miss the point: Inequality is part of what drives poverty

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The Tyranny of the Top Five Journals

Oct 2, 2018

Getting published in a top five economics journal is a near-requirement for tenure. But it’s a poor measure of research quality within a system that punishes creativity.