Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The Coming China Crisis
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.
Drooping Green Shoots
Paul Krugman on the MIT History
What does Yanis Varoufakis want?
Finding Till Düppe
The Brace is On
Yes indeed, we can blog it!
Bernard Maris (1946-2015), Charlie Hebdo and Incommensurability
As you may remember, I had decided to cease contributing to this blog a few months ago. Nevertheless, I thought I could use my completely illegitimate administrator rights to post one last piece dealing with the recent events in France
They called it a sunspot
Why Keynes is Important Today
Income and Wealth Distribution in Germany: A Macroeconomic Perspective
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.
Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe
The question of underdevelopment and development policies in postwar Europe will be the theme of a workshop organized by Michele Alacevich, Sandrine Kott, and Mark Mazower, at Columbia University, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Friday, October 10, 2014. The program is available here. Below are some of Alacevich’s insights on the issue leading up the event:
The torch that wouldn't burn - UCLA in 1968
Employment as University Professor is by comparison with the grind of the professional world a peaceful, perhaps even relaxing, assignment.
Destabilizing A Stable Crisis
Top incomes and the glass ceiling
The glass ceiling is typically examined in terms of the distribution of earnings. This column discusses the glass ceiling in the gender distribution of total incomes, including self-employment and capital income. Evidence from Canada and the UK shows we are still far from equality. Though the proportion of women in the top 1% has been rising, the progress is slower, almost non-existent, at the very top of the distribution.