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

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.
Economics and Politics
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?


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).
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

HES 2011, Paul Samuelson and the Beatles
So, how hard is it to write the history of exceptional figures? Shall we buy film cameras?

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
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.
In the Archives
Exit Strategy, or New Normal
Pop Archives
Inside Economics
After QE2, what then?
Upon leaving Mount Washington

A new K-hero
I was not in Bretton Woods this week. I followed the event through the videos posted on the INET website and the exhilarating and exhausting experience of Benjamin, Floris and Tiago.