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Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free.

Ocean expert Peter Neill says the watery depths hold solutions to earth’s most pressing challenges

How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women. Professor Girón discusses why microfinance cannot replace development banks.

A breakup of the Euro will be too difficult and costly for member countries.

Professor Dutt discusses how group identity is key to addressing inequality and how inequality can disrupt group identity.

How rationalization, marketization, and globalization characterize the U.S. economy during the past 50 years, and how the behavior of companies and fate of American workers have changed during this process.

Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.

In a recent interview at the INET offices in New York, Anwar Shaikh provided a background to the work and his life in this quest.

Pursuing equality while growing the economy requires reframing social spending as a form of investment.

A transition from the conventional policy of “redistributing income” to “redistributing membership”, could promote economic integration across communities and intergenerational mobility.

Explore your curiosity in economics in an open and critical community.

Following a thought-provoking panel discussion at the AEA, James Heckman and Rob Johnson discuss peer-reviewed journals and a professional incentive structure that constricts the idea space and reinforces tired orthodoxies in economics.

Stanford economic historian Professor Gavin Wright, addressing the Institute’s conference on the economics of race, argues that the conditions facing the children of the great migration from the South are very different to the conditions for the children of those who stayed behind. 

Mallaby’s research shows that Greenspan knew more about the looming perils than people realize.

Turner discusses The Economist’s Society the liquidity risks posed by Exchange Traded Funds.