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

Financial Deregulation: A Question of Efficiency or Distribution?
How can we better protect Main Street from the externalities of Wall Street?

They called it a sunspot
One of the earliest attempts to tackle the problem of multiple equilibria in Macroeconomics was a byproduct of David Cass and Karl Shell’s engagement with Robert Lucas’s 1972 paper on ‘Expectations and the Neutrality of Money.’

The IMF and Human Development: Little Progress and Worrisome Trends
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank celebrate their 70th anniversary this year, yet few countries have been eager to join the festivities.

The man who will not win the Nobel
Last Spring Larry Summers wounded Thomas Piketty in a friendly embrace.

Pasinetti on Institutional Forces and the Discipline of Economics
Ever since 2008, increasing numbers of economists, students, and even market professionals have protested the way economics is currently taught and practiced.

Destabilizing A Stable Crisis
Readers of Minsky are familiar with the idea that governments should act as financial stabilizing agents for their economies by running surpluses in times of boom and deficits in times of crises.
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention
Post-Crash Economics

We Can Blog it!
The more reflexive mode brought by the financial crisis to macroeconomics made economists more outspoken about methodological, historical and sociological issues: how have we come to the DSGE dogma? What are its limitations? How can we produce alternative knowledge? Do publishing practices favor a “monolithic” thinking, and if so, how can we change it? What about the graduate training in economics?

Macrowars, economists' narratives, and my dreamed history of macro
The last straw in the enduring blog debate over microfoundations has taken a decisive historical turn.
