Articles

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

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Financial (De)Globalization and the European Experiment

Nov 22, 2011

Europe is embarked on a grand experiment, managing modern financial crisis without a dealer of last resort, so refusing to follow the lead of the 2008 Fed.

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Toxic Textbooks

Nov 7, 2011

The Toxic Textbooks movement devotes energy to curriculum reform as well. Its purpose is to galvanize student protests and “encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.”

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Making Markets

Oct 17, 2011

Plumbing Matters

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A Response to John Kay's Essay on the State of Economics

Oct 10, 2011

The optimism embedded in the efficient market hypothesis has been one of the main sources of the recent turmoil

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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economics

Sep 24, 2011

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.”

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Twisting in the Wind

Sep 24, 2011

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Bazooka

Sep 17, 2011

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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 1. Ethics in Economics

Sep 10, 2011

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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Bank of the World

Sep 4, 2011

The first graph shows US financial flows over the past five years.