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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election
At least the Labour Party has only promised to cut day-to-day spending, not public investment.
Learning from Karl Polanyi
Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: new ideas for investment-led growth
“The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.” John M. Keynes, The End of Laissez Faire, 1926 (p. 44)
Drooping Green Shoots
Paul Krugman on the MIT History
How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World
A British national of Bengali origin, novelist Rana Dasgupta recently turned to nonfiction to explore the explosive social and economic changes in Delhi starting in 1991, when India launched a series of profoundly transformative economic reforms.
What does Yanis Varoufakis want?
With the approval of the reform proposals by the Greek government, the Eurozone has returned to calmer waters. But it is only a brief interlude.
The Brace is On
Yes indeed, we can blog it!
Last year I pointed out here (and here) that macroeconomists were making themselves comfortable in the blogosphere to discuss theoretical, methodological, and, why not, historical issues of their field (see also a nice post by our fellow kid, Beatrice).
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.