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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Toxic Textbooks
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Toxic Textbooks
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Imagining a New Intro Economics
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Economics in Uncertain Times
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What's in a name?
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Euro Summit Statement Explained
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NGDP target, in practice
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Nobel Prize Tasseology
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“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”
It’s Nobel Prize time again. And what a beautiful prize this year it is!
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Lords of Finance Redux
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Financial Globalization versus the Nation State
At its core, this rolling crisis is really about financial globalization.
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Twisting in the Wind
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China as bank of the world?
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Progress in Economics: A Comment
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Bazooka
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Bank of the world, three ways
The U.S., in aggregate, acts as a bank to the rest of the world. The precise role of that bank has evolved over the course of the crisis.
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 1. Ethics in Economics
Our interviews in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel, covered the range of opinion about the severity of conflicts of interest in economics: we are alright; economics is no more corrupted than other sciences; corruption is substantial; it is rotten to the core.
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Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
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Copper standard
I am late to the party on the inventive use of copper by Chinese companies seeking alternative sources of funds.
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Haircuts and Instability
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Economics and Politics
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Moral Hazard in Congress
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When $3 trillion is not enough
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Who does original research?
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Refinance Euro-style