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

How to Make Economics Students More Critical and Adaptive Thinkers?
Can we learn something from philosophy students?
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention

Why Economics Curriculum Needs Historical Context?
Can Economists Be Adequate Without Studying History?
Post-Crash Economics
We Can Blog it!

Economics as engineering III: Carnegie stories
The “economics and engineering” line of argument is part of economists’ rhetoric.

Macroeconomics in Perspective

Macroeconomics in Perspective
Reflections of the Université Catholique de Louvain “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop”

Roiling India Politics Risks Economic Reforms
India’s economic leaders are determined to rein in skyrocketing inflation, but the country’s volatile political landscape may prevent reforms from taking hold.
Our Hansen Moment
Mature history of economics

In the thick of it (labels and research)
Historians like labels. X history. History of y. The labels carve out subjects, set boundaries in time and space, at times even suggest methodological commitments.

Do social movements create new ideas?
The short answer is yes. For the long answer I will make you sit through seven paragraphs.
Finance and the Death of Trust
We Can Do Better

Trust and Finance
Finance is built on trust. It is based on promises about tomorrow, often paper promises backed by nothing other than words on a page. When trust in those promises breaks down, so too does the financial system. That is the lesson of thousands of years of history.