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

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From 1000AD to 1970 the History of World Trade is Based on Fact, After 1970, Fiction?

Mar 28, 2012

Having just started Findlay and O’Rourke’s mammoth history of world trade in the second millenia, I have been struck by a strange incongruity

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Fed, ECB balance sheet update

Feb 23, 2012

Perry and I extend our apologies for the unplanned hiatus. By way of breaking radio silence, it seems appropriate to check in on our two favorite banks.

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Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics

Feb 8, 2012

I am writing from my notes. The event I want to report took place some two months ago, I have since been preoccupied, then occupied, and now increasingly overwhelmed.