Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Thomas Scheiding: A history of scholarly communication in economics
We invited Thomas Scheiding from Cardinal Stritch University to review what we know about the scholarly communication process in economics. Tom has written forcefully on the history and economics of economic literature (see for instance, his 2009 JEM article). His latest is a study of the scholarly communication process in physics (an article in Studies).
When is a Bubble a Bubble?
Our Hansen Moment
The main goal of the macroeconomist is to understand the sources behind business cycles and the behavior of financial markets in the modern economy.
In which MIT decided to teach micro first so as to make economics more relevant
I’ve already blogged on how undergraduate education evolved at MIT in the postwar era here and here, but since Mike Konczal and Paul Krugman make the case that, to bring introductory economics closer to the real world, macro should be taught before micro as Samuelson did in the first 13 editions of his Economics textbook, it may be worth returning to it.