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

Start-Up Governments, or Can Bureaucracies Innovate?
For most economists and indeed for social scientists in general such a question induces shudders as already asking this seems wrong – aren’t governments more prone to failures than markets, and aren’t governments supposed to provide basic and stable institutions for markets to function?
Renminbi to the Rescue?

Replication and Transparency in Economic Research
In 2003, McCullough and Vinod wrote, “Research that cannot be replicated is not science, and cannot be trusted either as part of the profession’s accumulated body of knowledge or as a basis for policy.”(1)

RMB in SDR, Now What?
“Governments propose, markets dispose,” as Charles Kindleberger liked to say.