Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
@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).
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.
Deficits and Money
When the US last defaulted...
The government and the market
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
A PBoC balance sheet primer
Introducing the Jazz economist
Disdain or paranoia for historians of economics?
The organizers of Duke’s Summer Institute on the history of economics were so worried that students might be embarrassed to ask their supervisors for a letter of recommendation, or that the supervisors would say it’s a waste of time to study history, so they took a last minute decision to cancel the need for a letter of recommendation.
Was Adam Smith a communist?
Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?
Shocks
A Cold Case
Are banks firms? (continued)
Are banks firms?
Chinese property: a money view
Single-tranche open market operations: there's a bigger picture
We continue to learn about what the Fed did during the crisis.
International money, take 1
As a matter of accounting, if the U.S. as a whole buys from the rest of the world more than it sells to the rest of the world, then it must, on net, also be borrowing from the rest of the world. Perry has previously put this into a money-view context.
New Economic Thinking on Greece
The New Lombard Street
In the Crosshairs
Shadow money, still contracting
Mr. Market's Rorschach Test
The New Fed and the Real World
These Things Take Time
Desperately seeking collateral
The Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) was one of the bigger (in dollar terms) emergency programs implemented by the Fed during the crisis of 2008.