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

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Trumping Capitalism?

Jan 24, 2017

Donald Trump’s presidency is a symptom of an interregnum between economic orders – a period that will result in a new balance between state and market. While his administration’s economic policies are unlikely to provide the right answer, they may at least show the world what not to do.

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Race May be Pseudo-Science, But Economists Ignore it at their Peril

Jan 6, 2017

Presented by Professor Dan O’Flaherty at the Institute’s conference on the economics of race in Detroit on 11 November, 2016

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INET's Turner Warns Against 'Fantasy' of Stimulating Economies Through Financial Deregulation

Jan 5, 2017

There is no good case for major deregulation of the US financial sector, warns INET Board Chairman Adair Turner, and any backsliding by a Trump administration on banks’ capital requirements instituted globally after 2008 will be very dangerous