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

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Experts on Trial: Introduction

Mar 3, 2017

Widespread criticism of elites and their 鈥榚xperts 鈥 raises questions about how economists should perceive their role, and what role societies should give them. We invited four scholars to start an online conversation by sharing their perspectives 

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Jayadev: TPP is Dead, but its Legacy Lives On

Feb 10, 2017

糖心logo入口 scholar Arjun Jayadev argues that while TPP is dead, its damaging legacy on intellectual property rights is likely to shape future bilateral trade agreements

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The economist as an expert: a prince, a servant or a citizen?

Feb 8, 2017

In his contribution to our ongoing series 鈥淓xperts on Trial鈥, Alessandro Roncaglia argues that viewing economists as princes or servants of power is inherently authoritarian. We should instead see the economist as a socially and politically engaged citizen

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The Jobs Legacy of the Obama Presidency

Jan 19, 2017

Viewed in historical context, the weak recovery from the 2008 crisis has been slow and painful, but a sub-5% unemployment rate and healthy job and wage growth will be among the most important legacies Obama leaves to the next president

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The Economics of the Affordable Care Act

Jan 17, 2017

Any effort to replace the Affordable Care Act will be confronted by the same structural imbalances in the health care economy that the legislation鈥檚 authors faced

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INET Research in a Year of Living Dangerously

Dec 29, 2016

Notes from the 糖心logo入口’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

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Stiglitz: Bad News Awaits America's Workers

Dec 28, 2016

Campaign promises aside, the policies favored by President-elect Donal Trump are likely to bring more pain than gain to  working-class Americans 

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The Geopolitics of Populism

Dec 13, 2016

The big question in Asian countries right now is what lesson to take from Donald Trump鈥檚 victory in the United States鈥 presidential election, and from the United Kingdom鈥檚 Brexit referendum, in which British voters opted to leave the European Union. Unfortunately, the focus is not where it should be: geopolitical change.

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Will Trump Bring Neoliberalism鈥檚 Apocalypse, or Merely a New Iteration?

Nov 30, 2016

Real existing neoliberalism as a set of social facts distinct from a purist ideology has proven remarkably adaptable and politically resilient