Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
On the difficulty of assembling a chronology and other F....moments in history of economics research
This year, I’m sharing an office with an econometrician on Mondays and with a geographer on Fridays (you don’t want to go into the subtleties of the French educational system).
I like IKE
Where the World Economic Association Started
Having lunch next to Edward Fullbrook he told me the story of how the post-autistic economic review got its start, leading to what we today know as the World Economic Association and all the great work coming from this community.
Great Hospitality or Chance to Innovate?
Some personal touches to hospitality at the INET conference, although I feel for the people who have been holding that sign all day.
Meeting New Challenges in China
Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?
History of Economics and Images: static and dynamic
There has been an important movement towards making available on the web a host of open courses.
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
That’s the question that Adair Turner, Chair of the UK Financial Services Authority, was addressing in his lecture to Cass Business School this week.
Open to be open to be open…
2012: A Year in Review
Waste, waste, waste
Economics is very theoretically comfortable with what may be termed `Keynesian’ waste.
OMT: Slouching toward Eurobills?
Rigor Mortis?
Liquidity, Down the Drain
China released quarterly GDP figures this week. Wen Jiabao emphasized the parts of the release that pointed toward stabilization, and one can certainly find some logic to that view.
Is The Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference Falsifiable?
MWG introduces the theory of consumer behavior by presenting two distinct approaches to modeling consumer behavior, the preference-based approach (based upon unobservable preferences generating a utility function) and the choice-based approach (based upon observable choice behavior), and attempting to establish connections between the two.
Situating Microeconomics
Welcome to Reading Mas-Colell!
The use of economists' biography, III.
“The aim would not be to unravel a hidden coherent structure of the philosophical, theoretical, political dimensions of his work, but to give a sense of the contingencies that his work was subject to – both in terms of its origins and its receptions. Don’t make up an Arrow that he himself was not aware of.” -Till to me, email conversation on Kenneth Arrow, summer 2012