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

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James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance

Nov 9, 2020

When segregationists fought against school integration, libertarian economist James Buchanan saw an opportunity for his private education plan

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Final Comments on Lance Taylor’s “On the ‘Global Savings Glut”

Oct 5, 2020

The third and final round of response from Andrew Smithers on Lance Taylor’s INET working paper on the alleged “global savings glut.”

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It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”

Sep 11, 2020

Why freeing American households and businesses from crippling private debt would be a boon to the economy. Article reposted from DemocracyJournal.org.

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Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump

Sep 10, 2020

This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.

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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure

Jul 24, 2020

That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good. This article is being published jointly by INET and The American Prospect