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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
@Academia and Public, Berlin: And then it was all about the history...
It’s not everyday that one finds economists using history as not just the right way but the only way to answer a question.
Fizzle at Jackson Hole
Disaggregate, disaggregate!
Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
The long - and tedious - road to rankings
To celebrate its 100 years of publishing, the AER published a special issues, whose retrospective part consisted of a list of the 20 most important articles, assembled by a committee which included Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, and an essay on the history of the AER by Robert A. Margo.
Of the difference between the historian and the filmmaker
Months ago, I got a message from a friend that was a swift and excited line: Errol Morris was writing a series of posts about science, even more remarkable about Thomas Kuhn.
Copper standard
Okay, leadership, but by whom?
Haircuts and Instability
Economics and Politics
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?
Refinance Euro-style
Paul Samuelson, Women and the History of Economics (Part 2)
As part of the tremendous promotion campaign for the 8th edition of his textbook Economics, Samuelson was devoted a feature in the New York Times (February 5, 1970, p. 41).