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

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VP Biden Cites Lazonick in Critique of Stock Buybacks

Sep 28, 2016

Vice President warns that corporate stock buybacks restrict America’s long-term prosperity, citing the research of Institute grantee William Lazonick who has long argued the same

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Guardian’s Wisconsin investigation points to big money’s systemic distortion of U.S. democracy

Sep 15, 2016

Newspaper’s probe amplifies questions raised by our research into the impact of corporate donations onU.S. elections

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Do U.S. Economists Ignore Inequality?

Sep 14, 2016

Painting economics as blind to inequality may be overstating matters, but for too long efforts to explain it have been self limiting. Now, new economic thinkers are willing to pose uncomfortable questions.