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

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Economics and computation in the postwar period: managing scarcity

Jul 1, 2012

“We choose this stochastic structure for computational reasons. This reduces the dimension of the variables. With (such and such) alternative, the computational burden would have dramatically increased.”

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Three questions to Ivan Moscati: Historicizing Choice Theory

May 31, 2012

Ivan Moscati is one of the most exciting voices in the historiography of decision theory.

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Let Us Praise Famous Men, or why we must praise them...

May 30, 2012

Steven Shapin is visiting the UK. For those unfamiliar with the history and sociology of science, he is one of the giants of the field.