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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Marion Fourcade and historians of economics: a quiet revolution?
In recent years, an increasingly significant part of the history of economics has modeled itself after the methodologies developed by Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars.
Heterodoxy and The Economist
Fixed exchange rates
First the ECB, then the IMF, Part One
The fact of the matter is that European bank funding markets are collapsing onto the ECB balance sheet.
We Are Greg Mankiw… or Not?
Liquidity, Public and Private
These dangerous postmodern relativists, Part I: Merchants of doubt
A recent e-mail conversation I had with Harro Maas concerning one of my latest drafts (shameless self-promotion) made me buy and read Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s, Merchants of Doubts.
Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman: How can history stimulate new economic thinking?
The following text was sent to us by Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman, we reproduce it in its entirety.
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
NGDP target, in practice
Last week Goldman Sachs published a note in favor of the Fed’s adopting a formal nominal GDP target, while Fed-watchers caught a whiff of a possible change in policy in the works.
Nobel Prize Tasseology
Till is right. It’s not the historian’s task to question the legitimacy of the decisions of the Nobel Committee.
Making Markets
The Price is wrong
First Liquidity, then Solvency
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics
This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.
Europe Ground Zero
Twisting in the Wind
@Academia and Public, Berlin: Students as model publics
The transatlantic conference has been moving targets: sociology went first, then economics, then history, today it was political science and international relations.