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

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The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences

Mar 20, 2017

In the age of Adam Smith, an economics that masqueraded as natural science and excluded the human condition actually suited the interests of the landed and the wealthy

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China’s Economic Challenges May Soon Include Inequality

Feb 14, 2017

Research by Thomas Piketty, partly funded by the Institute, shows that wealth and income gaps in China are now larger than Europe’s, and approaching those of the US

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Euroland: Will the Netherlands be the next domino to fall?

Feb 13, 2017

Austerity has nurtured resentments that will likely make the populist right PVV the biggest winner in the March 15 election — but without the majority or the allies needed to govern