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We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

Articles

Commentary, analysis, interviews, and research summaries by INET-affiliated writers.

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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Articles

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

Article

What is Missing in Flassbeck & Lapavitsas

By Servaas Storm

Feb 22, 2016

More on substance, coherence, and relevance in the Eurozone debate.

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The China Delusion

Feb 18, 2016

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Professional Expertise or Politics Driving Economists’ View of Hillary and Bernie?

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 9, 2016

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The IMF unlocks billions in aid, but from whom?

By Thomas Stubbs, Alex Kentikelenis, and Lawrence Peter King

Feb 2, 2016

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Rejoinder to Flassbeck and Lapavitsas

By Servaas Storm

Jan 28, 2016

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Wage Moderation and Productivity in Europe

By Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas

Jan 28, 2016

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Are Economists in Denial About What's Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 27, 2016

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Let Them Drink Pollution?

By James K. Boyce

Jan 26, 2016

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Friendly Fire

By Peter Bofinger

Jan 20, 2016

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German Wage Moderation and the Eurozone Crisis: A Critical Analysis

By Servaas Storm

Jan 8, 2016

It is high time to look more closely at the labor cost competitiveness myth.

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Start-Up Governments, or Can Bureaucracies Innovate?

By Rainer Kattel and Erkki Karo

Jan 4, 2016

For most economists and indeed for social scientists in general such a question induces shudders as already asking this seems wrong – aren’t governments more prone to failures than markets, and aren’t governments supposed to provide basic and stable institutions for markets to function?

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The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil

By Lynn Parramore

Dec 22, 2015

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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits

By William Lazonick

Dec 21, 2015

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The Scientific Limits of Understanding Complex Social Phenomena

By Alexander Krauss

Dec 17, 2015

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The Gift of Deregulation

By Thomas Ferguson

Dec 14, 2015