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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Three questions to Ivan Moscati: Historicizing Choice Theory
Ivan Moscati is one of the most exciting voices in the historiography of decision theory.
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Banks as creators of money
Relativist versus absolutist history of economics
I don’t seem to be able to fully grasp Mark Blaug’s distinction between a relativist and an absolutist approach to the history of economics – first introduced in Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962) – and that is a source of much frustration.
Life Among the Econ: Talking history with Axel Leijonhufvud
Like many economists, I have enjoyed Axel Leijonhufvud’s “Life among the Econ” and nodded appreciatively when he described the social classifications of the Econ as “Grads, Adults and Elders” and chuckled when the young grad tries to impress the elders of the ‘dept’ through adept ‘modl’ building; so when the man himself was holding a glass of champagne and chatting with me at the INET conference, I had to ask how he got that paper started.