Articles

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

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Self-Control and Public Pensions

By Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant

Jul 13, 2014

Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.

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HES 2014: It made a happy man very old!

By Yann Giraud

Jul 1, 2014

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The Nature of Invention

By Eric Beinhocker

Jun 26, 2014

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Inequality and the Future of Capitalism

By Till van Treeck

Jun 25, 2014

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Why Standard Macro Models Fail During Crises

By Eric Beinhocker

Jun 25, 2014

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Why Economics Curriculum Needs Historical Context?

Jun 24, 2014

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Post-Crash Economics

By Robert Skidelsky

Jun 18, 2014

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Piketty Responds in Detail to FT Criticism

May 29, 2014

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We Can Blog it!

By Pedro G. Duarte

May 6, 2014

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A Fight Over Inequality: The 5% Vs. The Rest

By Elham Saeidinezhad

Apr 29, 2014

In late 2007, the United States started feeling the effects of the Great Recession. And over the ensuing two years the economic disaster spread across the globe.

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Piketty and thinking about economics

By Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Apr 18, 2014

There is a new economics rock-star touring the US by all accounts, and his name is Thomas Piketty.

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Charles Babbage and the History of Innovative Thinking

By Guy Numa

Apr 7, 2014

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Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?

By James K. Galbraith

Mar 30, 2014

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Dancing in the Dark: Creating an Economics for the 21st Century

By Rob Johnson

Mar 27, 2014

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Economics as engineering III: Carnegie stories

By Beatrice Cherrier

Mar 23, 2014