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

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Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics

Feb 8, 2012

I am writing from my notes. The event I want to report took place some two months ago, I have since been preoccupied, then occupied, and now increasingly overwhelmed.

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Fixed exchange rates

Dec 23, 2011

As we prepare to digest the implications of this week’s ECB move, it seems worthwhile to take a look at the monetary economics of fixed exchange rates.

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John Whittaker: Eurosystem balances explained

Dec 12, 2011

[The following guest post is by John Whittaker, from whom we have learned much of what we know about how the European payments system works. See his terrific papers here and here, both of which reward close study. He has been looking over the last couple Money View posts, and the comments to those posts, and has this to say.]

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A Response to John Kay: Elements of an Evolutionary Paradigm

Nov 17, 2011

INET published a paper, written by John Kay, that deals with the relationship between economics and the world we live in. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics spells out methodological critiques of economic theory in general, and of DSGE models and rational expectations in particular.

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Economics in Uncertain Times

Nov 2, 2011

My first TV chat show performance:

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What's in a name?

Nov 2, 2011

In the case of utility, it’s all in the name.

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A Response to John Kay's Essay on the State of Economics

Oct 5, 2011

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 should have been sufficient empirical evidence to indicate that the axiomatic basis of the mainstream theory needs to be replaced.