Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
The government and the market
Mention the government and the market and all academic reflection and civilized discussion dissolves into heated monologues. Politicians are an extreme case.
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
A PBoC balance sheet primer
Introducing the Jazz economist
Can It Happen Again?
Was Adam Smith a communist?
Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?
Shocks
The financial and economic crises started by the fall of Lehman Borthers came as a big shock, a financial shock, an economic shock, a psychological shock, and a political shock among others.