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

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How the computer transformed economics. And didn’t.

May 19, 2016

The shift toward applied economics in the last 40 years is usually associated with the development of computers and datasets. Yet, the success of computer-based approaches is highly selective, and what computerization failed to change in economics is equally remarkable.

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Helicopter Money on a Leash?

May 10, 2016

Any use of money-financed fiscal expansion as a policy tool will require rules to ensure discipline and avoid excess

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Shadow banking’s enduring perils

May 9, 2016

Five lessons from the last crisis — for managing the next one