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

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Three Things to Know to Hold Wells Fargo Accountable

Oct 11, 2016

Justice requires that the media, policy makers, and the public understand why corporations engage in misconduct and fraud

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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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Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory Before the Next Crisis

Sep 23, 2016

While many countries throughout the world have faced severe financial crises over the last decades, and while the Japanese stagnation and the 1997 Asian financial crisis did induce some additional interest for the introduction of banking and finance in macroeconomic theory, it is only with the advent of the US subprime financial crisis that macroeconomic and monetary theories put forward by mainstream economists have started to be questioned.