Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
Is there an ECB?
At Home in Economics
What a liquidity crisis looks like
Bloomberg’s reporters continue their diligent work looking back on the Fed’s lending in the subprime crisis.
Financial (De)Globalization and the European Experiment
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.
Toxic Textbooks
Toxic Textbooks
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.”
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
NGDP target, in practice
Nobel Prize Tasseology
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
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.”
Twisting in the Wind
China as bank of the world?
Progress in Economics: A Comment
Bazooka
Bank of the world, three ways
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.