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

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Austerity Raises Covid Deaths

Mar 26, 2021

Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse

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To Fight Climate Change, Save Energy and Reduce Inequality

Feb 22, 2021

The IPCC was correct in emphasizing the need for early mitigation, but their analysis of possible growth trajectories appears to be faulty.

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"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility

Jan 5, 2021

How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.