Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Methodology, Systemic Risk, and the Economics Profession
Changing the incentives for how economists determine both the content of the subject and their approach to scientific research could increase the range of thinking in the profession
Thirteen Ways to Split a Cake*
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
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?
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.