Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Student discontent, teaching economics, and Robin Wells's suggestions for shifting our perspective: A historical case
On November 2nd, I was sitting in the Hayden Library Special Collection reading room at MIT, browsing archives on the undergraduate and graduate students’ discontent during the early 70s and the response of the economics department faculty.
Toxic Textbooks
Toxic Textbooks
The Toxic Textbooks movement devotes energy to curriculum reform as well. Its purpose is to galvanize student protests and “encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.”
Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)
This is the question I’m supposed to answer for an experimental INET conference aimed at inspiring new thinking through interdisciplinary conversation and collective reflection without rules.
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
A Response to John Kay's Essay on the State of Economics
The optimism embedded in the efficient market hypothesis has been one of the main sources of the recent turmoil
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?
