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

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The Institute and Income Distribution at GES 2015

Oct 15, 2015

The Institute recently sponsored several panels at the Kiel Global Economic Symposium. In particular, the panel on Income Distribution and Mobility struck us as likely to be of especially wide interest. We are grateful for the participation of all the scholars on them and are pleased to present summaries of their presentations here.

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Mathematics, Models and Reality in Microeconomics

Sep 23, 2015

Have economists fallen in love with an idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets? To what extent is standard microeconomics responsible for this state of affairs?

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Jim Chanos on What Lies Ahead for Greece

Sep 18, 2015

As Greece heads to the polls, a look back at the crisis and what the future will bring.