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

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Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold

Mar 1, 2017

Policies based on faith in the “market” as a principle of social organization have wrought havoc with a founding principle of American democracy

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The economist as an expert: a prince, a servant or a citizen?

Feb 8, 2017

In his contribution to our ongoing series “Experts on Trial”, Alessandro Roncaglia argues that viewing economists as princes or servants of power is inherently authoritarian. We should instead see the economist as a socially and politically engaged citizen

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Zero Interest Rates in EU: The Myth of the Poor German Saver

Feb 7, 2017

Panic over the impact on  German savers of low interest rates and looming inflation neglects to mention that very few Germans are saving much