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

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The Nobel Prize in Economics: Time for a Return to Social Democracy

Sep 26, 2016

An award created as a concession to market-minded bankers needs to recognize the centrality of social-democratic policies to the wellbeing of industrialized economies

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Do U.S. Economists Ignore Inequality?

Sep 14, 2016

Painting economics as blind to inequality may be overstating matters, but for too long efforts to explain it have been self limiting. Now, new economic thinkers are willing to pose uncomfortable questions.

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Monetary Policy in a Post-Crisis World: Beyond the Taylor Rule

Sep 9, 2016

We know about emergency lending, but what we are missing is the macroeconomic framework to guide a new rule for stabilization policy