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

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The Clash of Economic Ideas: A Review

Apr 25, 2012

When Paul Krugman paints John Maynard Keynes as a pioneering critic of dominant free-market economics, he exaggerates wildly, both about the rigidity of orthodoxy and about the pioneering character of Keynes’ critique.

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Manufacturing jobs will disappear - no matter where you are

Apr 12, 2012

Just as the agricultural share of employment has fallen from 40% in the 1920s to less than 2% of the workforce in Europe today, manufacturing’s share of employment will fall to less than 5% of employment.

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@INET Berlin: Doing the actual work

Apr 12, 2012

While yesterday presented a number of frontrunning scientists discussing current economics and state of the economy in general, academic terms, today starts with ECB executive board member Asmussen.