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

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Britney and the Bear: Who Says You Can鈥檛 Get Good Help Anymore?

Mar 14, 2018

From the Archives: In the wake of the Bear Stearns bailout in 2008, INET Research Director Tom Ferguson and President Rob Johnson say taxpayers rescuing banks are owed their due: “If the public is going to pay for [bailouts]… it should also get paid back for them.”

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INET Research in a Stressful Year

Feb 23, 2018

In the face of  laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.

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Don't Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy.

Feb 20, 2018

Economist Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, and his colleague, literary critic and Slavic studies scholar Saul Morson, argue that—contrary to popular belief—studying the humanities is the key to not getting outsourced.

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China鈥檚 Green Opportunity

Jan 12, 2018

China is now the world鈥檚 largest greenhouse-gas emitter, accounting for over 25% of the global total. But the country has also demonstrated a growing understanding that a truly green economy promises to improve quality of life and create enormous opportunities for technological and political leadership.

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Why Research and Innovation Are Vital for Southern European Economies鈥攁nd Eurozone Survival

Dec 11, 2017

Austerity measures have battered the region and created instability throughout the Eurozone. Here鈥檚 one way out of the mess.

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鈥淲orse Than Big Tobacco鈥: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic

Oct 10, 2017

Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale