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

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On Arrest Filters and Empirical Inferences

Jul 14, 2016

I’ve been thinking a bit more about Roland Fryer’s working paper on police use of force, prompted by this thread by Europile and excellent posts by Michelle Phelps and Ezekeil Kweku.

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Brexit: The Tectonic Plates

Jul 1, 2016

The Brexit referendum is nothing less than an earthquake. But when an earthquake happens, seismologists try to understand how and why the tectonic plates had been shifting, and the pressures that had been building to bring about the event. The causes underlying every earthquake are specific in how they come together, even if they are seen in different places.