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

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Why Corporate CEO Pay is Routinely Undercounted

Sep 15, 2016

An Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper by William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins reveals that much reporting on executive pay relies on systems of measurement that underreport real compensation

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​Racial Wealth Gap Won't be Fixed by Education Alone

Aug 16, 2016

Renewed attention on America’s stark and growing racial wealth divide requires critical thinking on policy remedies

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General Equilibrium Theory: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?

Aug 16, 2016

Does general equilibrium theory sufficiently enhance our understanding of the economic process to make the entire exercise worthwhile, if we consider that other forms of thinking may have been ‘crowded out’ as a result of its being the ‘dominant discourse’? What, in the end, have we really learned from it?