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

The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
Training first-world children for a third-world life
Visions Beyond the Haunted House

Is There Another Bear in the Woods? How Not to Celebrate a 10th Anniversary
As the U.S. Congress works to undo financial regulation, INET reflects on the lessons of the Bear Stearns bailout

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

INET Research in a Stressful Year
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.

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

China鈥檚 Green Opportunity
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.

Here鈥檚 Why Sexual Harassment Matters for Economists
To get justice, targets must show measurable harm. Economists can help

Three Surprises on Climate Change from Economist Michael Grubb
Two years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, where we stand today is better than you may think

Why Research and Innovation Are Vital for Southern European Economies鈥攁nd Eurozone Survival
Austerity measures have battered the region and created instability throughout the Eurozone. Here鈥檚 one way out of the mess.
The Big Questions Are Back
Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?

鈥淲orse Than Big Tobacco鈥: How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale