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

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NGDP target, in practice

Oct 25, 2011

Last week Goldman Sachs published a note in favor of the Fed’s adopting a formal nominal GDP target, while Fed-watchers caught a whiff of a possible change in policy in the works.

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The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics

Oct 4, 2011

The reputation of economics and economists, never high, has been a victim of the crash of 2008.

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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics

Oct 1, 2011

This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.