Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)
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.
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
A Response to John Kay's Essay on the State of Economics
The optimism embedded in the efficient market hypothesis has been one of the main sources of the recent turmoil
Lords of Finance Redux
Europe Ground Zero
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economics
I cannot resist but to start quoting Mary Morgan’s second entry to the second edition of the New Palgrave: “Modeling became the dominant methodology of economics during the 20th century.”
Bank of the world, three ways
A call to arms for Historians and Economists...
The Marshall Lectures often provide thought provoking talks and one talk in particular spoke to me looking at the relationship between history and economics:
Copper standard
Okay, leadership, but by whom?
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?
Refinance Euro-style
Deficits and Money
When the US last defaulted...
Two things seem to be taken for granted in the current debt-ceiling debate: 1. The parties will come to an agreement on the debt ceiling because 2. These United States have never defaulted and will not start now.