Articles

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

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We Are Greg Mankiw… or Not?

Nov 19, 2011

Amid mass unemployment and economic turmoil, instructors who lecture on the superiority of free markets without acknowledging the dysfunction in the wider economy are at risk of appearing out of touch and exacerbating antipathy towards economics.

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Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)

Nov 3, 2011

This is the question I’m supposed to answer for an experimental INET conference aimed at inspiring new thinking through interdisciplinary conversation and collective reflection without rules.

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Imagining a New Intro Economics

Nov 2, 2011

Yesterday, Harvard students of Ec 10 staged a walkout to draw attention to the bias they detect in the course.

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China as bank of the world?

Sep 19, 2011

Can the renminbi displace the dollar as the world’s international money?

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A call to arms for Historians and Economists...

Sep 2, 2011

The Marshall Lectures often provide thought provoking talks and one talk in particular spoke to me looking at the relationship between history and economics:

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Economics and Politics

Aug 2, 2011

Economics and politics go hand in hand, we all know that.