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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Backhouse and Bateman want Worldly Philosophers, not only dentists; not everyone agrees
Professors Roger Backhouse and Brad Bateman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times a few days ago, arguing that “thanks to decades of academic training in the “dentistry” approach to economics, today’s Keynes or Friedman is nowhere to be found” - we have stopped thinking big they say.
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
NGDP target, in practice
Nobel Prize Tasseology
Till is right. It’s not the historian’s task to question the legitimacy of the decisions of the Nobel Committee.
“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”
It’s Nobel Prize time again. And what a beautiful prize this year it is!
Financial Globalization versus the Nation State
At its core, this rolling crisis is really about financial globalization.
Progress in Economics: A Comment
Bazooka
@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.
Bank of the world, three ways
The U.S., in aggregate, acts as a bank to the rest of the world. The precise role of that bank has evolved over the course of the crisis.
Disaggregate, disaggregate!
Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
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
I am late to the party on the inventive use of copper by Chinese companies seeking alternative sources of funds.
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 1)
Paul Samuelson was notorious for many things, but also, like Marshall, for spending most of his academic life in the same institution.