Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Twisting in the Wind
China as bank of the world?
Progress in Economics: A Comment
Bazooka
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.
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 1. Ethics in Economics
Our interviews in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel, covered the range of opinion about the severity of conflicts of interest in economics: we are alright; economics is no more corrupted than other sciences; corruption is substantial; it is rotten to the core.
Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
Copper standard
I am late to the party on the inventive use of copper by Chinese companies seeking alternative sources of funds.
Haircuts and Instability
Economics and Politics
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?
Refinance Euro-style
Wanted to buy: $2T in safe assets
Two FT pieces by Tracy Alloway caught my eye this week: this article from Tuesday’s print edition, and this post on Alphaville today.
When the US last defaulted...
The government and the market
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
A PBoC balance sheet primer
Introducing the Jazz economist
Can It Happen Again?
Was Adam Smith a communist?
In his two-tome, 1400 page Dutch Leerboek der Staathuishoudkunde (Textbook of Economics), first published in 1884, Nicolaas Pierson (1839 - 1909) accuses the great Scotsman of being a communist – or at least of consciously clearing the way for the socialists with their ideal of a communist society.
Chinese property: a money view
International money, take 1