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

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Is Inequality a Political Choice?

Feb 3, 2017

Research by INET-affiliated scholars shows the US lags far behind its peers on inclusive growth, suggesting inequality is not an inevitable consequence of globalization and technology

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Ferguson: Monetary Policy Can't Levitate a Broken Economy

Jan 9, 2017

As part of an International Economy symposium, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson assessed the challenge facing central bankers through the lens of the missing virtues of Dorothy’s travel companions in the Wizard of Oz

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America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy

Jan 6, 2017

A concentration of wealth and power that created a twin crisis of representation — in politics, and in expertise — set the stage for Donald Trump’s election victory, and has put America’s founding principles at risk