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

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Is there really an empirical turn in economics?

Sep 29, 2016

The idea that economics has recently gone through an empirical turn –that it went from theory to data– is all over the place. I argue that this transformation has been oversimplified and mischaracterized.

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Turner: Why Macroeconomic Policies are Failing

Sep 29, 2016

In a Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit Debate, Institute board chairman Adair Turner explains why extraordinary monetary policy isn’t working