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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Articles

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

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A Response to John Kay: Elements of an Evolutionary Paradigm

By Giovanni Dosi

Nov 17, 2011

INET published a paper, written by John Kay, that deals with the relationship between economics and the world we live in. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics spells out methodological critiques of economic theory in general, and of DSGE models and rational expectations in particular.

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Liquidity, Public and Private

By Perry G. Mehrling

Nov 15, 2011

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Does econ blogging open new conversations (part II): lessons from Mike Konczal, Noah Smith, Mark Thoma and Milton Friedman

By Beatrice Cherrier

Nov 15, 2011

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These dangerous postmodern relativists, Part I: Merchants of doubt

Nov 14, 2011

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Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman: How can history stimulate new economic thinking?

Nov 11, 2011

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Backhouse and Bateman want Worldly Philosophers, not only dentists; not everyone agrees

By Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Nov 9, 2011

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Toxic Textbooks

By Edward Fullbrook

Nov 7, 2011

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Toxic Textbooks

By Edward Fullbrook

Nov 7, 2011

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Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)

By Beatrice Cherrier

Nov 3, 2011

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Imagining a New Intro Economics

Nov 2, 2011

Yesterday, Harvard students of Ec 10 staged a walkout to draw attention to the bias they detect in the course.

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Economics in Uncertain Times

By Perry G. Mehrling

Nov 2, 2011

My first TV chat show performance:

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What's in a name?

By Floris Heukelom

Nov 2, 2011

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Euro Summit Statement Explained

By Perry G. Mehrling

Oct 27, 2011

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NGDP target, in practice

By Daniel H. Neilson

Oct 25, 2011

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Nobel Prize Tasseology

By Beatrice Cherrier

Oct 25, 2011