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

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The Coming China Crisis

Mar 18, 2015

Rapid private-debt growth threw Japan into crisis in 1991 and did the same to the United States and Europe in 2008. China may be next.

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Income and Wealth Distribution in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Oct 26, 2014

Household economic surveys, such as the German Socio-Economic Panel, notoriously underestimate the degree of income and wealth inequality at the upper end of the distribution.

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Nobel Win Doesn鈥檛 Equate To Policy Prescriptions

Oct 21, 2014

The “keys under the streetlight story” is well known among economists, but in case you haven’t heard it, it goes like this.

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The torch that wouldn't burn - UCLA in 1968

Sep 29, 2014

Employment as University Professor is by comparison with the grind of the professional world a peaceful, perhaps even relaxing, assignment.