Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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?
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?
Refinance Euro-style
Deficits and Money
When the US last defaulted...
Two things seem to be taken for granted in the current debt-ceiling debate: 1. The parties will come to an agreement on the debt ceiling because 2. These United States have never defaulted and will not start now.
The government and the market
Mention the government and the market and all academic reflection and civilized discussion dissolves into heated monologues. Politicians are an extreme case.
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
A PBoC balance sheet primer
Introducing the Jazz economist
Can It Happen Again?
Was Adam Smith a communist?
Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?
Shocks
The financial and economic crises started by the fall of Lehman Borthers came as a big shock, a financial shock, an economic shock, a psychological shock, and a political shock among others.
A Cold Case
Some time ago, my colleague and dear friend (nevertheless!) Loïc Charles wrote on the previous version of the Playground, a very nice and intriguing post on Samuelson’s introductory textbook, Economics, and TV Series.
Are banks firms? (continued)
Are banks firms?
Chinese property: a money view
International money, take 1
New Economic Thinking on Greece
The New Lombard Street
Mr. Market's Rorschach Test
The New Fed and the Real World
These Things Take Time
Desperately seeking collateral
In the Archives
Exit Strategy, or New Normal
Pop Archives
Inside Economics
Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job forces us to fundamentally rethink the connections between economics and policy making.