Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Middle-Out Economics: A Truer Form of Capitalism
“Four men sat at a table. Raised sixty floors above the city, they did not speak loudly as one speaks from a height in the freedom of air and space; they kept their voices low, as befitted a cellar.”
Economics Needs Replication
A chronology of economics at Carnegie (in progress)
To illustrate the previous post on the difficulties in putting together a chronology, here is tentative chronology of economics at Carnegie. It’s still in process, and links, sources and entries will be updated as I read.
Lending in the Dark: China's Shadow Banking Sector
The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability. But just how extensive – and how risky – is shadow banking in China?
Keynesianism, neoliberalism and the 'Dissemination' of Economic Ideas: That's the Way of the World.
I like IKE
Japan's Money Base Will Be 45% of GDP: US and UK is 19%-21%
Japan is going to double its money supply, according to today’s front page of the Financial Times (5 April 2013), and a salient question might be what we should compare that to. It sounds like a lot, but is it?
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.
Meeting New Challenges in China
Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?
How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will Increase the Deficit
Why all of the fuss about a nonexistent emergency?
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.
Open to be open to be open…
2012: A Year in Review
INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.
Waste, waste, waste
Economics is very theoretically comfortable with what may be termed `Keynesian’ waste.
OMT: Slouching toward Eurobills?
Rigor Mortis?
Krugman and Stiglitz: Crazy Austerity Policies Inflict Untold Damage on Economy
Two Nobel laureates, an election, and a shaky economy. The message? We can do a whole lot better.