Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Article
The rise of economics as engineering II: the case of MIT
Looming behind the aforementioned narratives of postwar economics is a notion – economics as engineering – which at times appears as a metaphor and at times stands for a straight depiction of economists’ professional milieu and practices.
Article
The rise of economics as engineering I : setting the scene
The rise of the economist as engineer is, economists and historians say, an essential characteristic of the development of economics in the postwar period.