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

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

Nov 9, 2011

Professors Roger Backhouse and Brad Bateman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times a few days ago, arguing that “thanks to decades of academic training in the “dentistry” approach to economics, today’s Keynes or Friedman is nowhere to be found” - we have stopped thinking big they say.

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Nobel Prize Tasseology

Oct 25, 2011

Till is right. It’s not the historian’s task to question the legitimacy of the decisions of the Nobel Committee.

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“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”

Oct 19, 2011

It’s Nobel Prize time again. And what a beautiful prize this year it is!