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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?

Jun 21, 2011

The Political Economy of Debt

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Shocks

Jun 21, 2011

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A Cold Case

Jun 20, 2011

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Are banks firms?

Jun 11, 2011

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The New Lombard Street

May 18, 2011

Further Thoughts

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Exit Strategy, or New Normal

Apr 23, 2011

War Reparations, or Prosperity

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Pop Archives

Apr 20, 2011

I was just amused with two projects by Shaun Usher: to “gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos” in his blog Letters of Note, and to present interesting letterheads in his Letterheadyblog.

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Of history repeating…

Apr 9, 2011

The Bretton Woods conference has a protean character.Talk in the corridors asks “what is it?” Some in the press (lots of press here) believe that deals are being made, the attendance of heavy hitters leads some to believe that consultations and strategies are being outlined for world government (Summers, Stiglitz, Brown, and yesterday Volcker arrived to close the event).

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Interview with Barry Eichengreen, any requests?

Apr 9, 2011

We have been talking and video interviewing people at the conference, and we’ve narrowed down a small list of questions which we try to build on and have so far talked to Kenneth Rogoff, Brad DeLong, Ha-Joon Chang, Stephen Ziliak, Philippe Aghion, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Barry Eichengreen and tomorrow we start with James Galbraith.

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The Illusion of Control

Mar 6, 2011

Exit Strategies and the New Normal

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A Money View of the FCIC Report: Part One

Jan 30, 2011

When the survival constraint bites