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Why it’s urgent that China adjust its balance of payment structure and safeguard its foreign assets

Greater efficiency, lower costs, and universal coverage make it the sustainable option, say some top economists

The famed short-seller offers a mid-2017 reality check for “fake fiscal news,” and economic pipe dreams, and sees “portents of even worse things”

Faced with rapid cost reductions for clean electricity generation, some commentators suggest that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.

McCloskey discusses her career, critiques of economics, and offers advice for young economists.

A new model probes why the US leads the world in jailing and imprisoning people, and what it will take to reverse course

Current proposals will worsen inequality and harm those Trump promised to protect—while further enriching the top 1%

Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) has released a new e-book, “Conversations on Dependency Theory”

Why some goods and services should stay in the public domain

This blog post looks at the aggregate picture and collates some micro evidence in a more robust estimating framework to shed light on this question.

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord sets the US economy back

Globalization has fallen into disrepute; the myth of the prosperity and happiness-generating  free market has been dispelled. A visionary concept that provides guidance and direction is required now.

Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class

A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it

This note comments on Eric Weinstein’s, “How and Why Government, Universities, and Industries Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers,” posted recently on INET’s website.