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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Trade in the Time of Trump
Trump ran in both 2016 and 2024 on a promise to reverse the deindustrialization caused by globalization and free trade, using tariffs as his main tool. But the critical question now is: Can it work?
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How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic—and How to Fix It
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
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How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics
If there is no universally accepted outside authority to tell us how to judge theories then knowledge is only going to progress by means of debate