Archive
-
Working Paper
Conference paperGWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment
May 2013
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genome-wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266), and all three replicate.
-
Article
Helicopter money as a policy option
May 29, 2013
‘Helicopter money’ may in some circumstances be the only certain way to stimulate nominal demand
-
Article
Dancing in the Dark: Creating an Economics for the 21st Century
May 12, 2013
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many of our policy makers and top economists are still stumbling in the dark.
-
News
Institute Grantee Vamsi Vakulabharanam Wins Amartya Sen Award for ‘Distinguished Social Scientists’ in India
May 12, 2013
Dr. Vamsi Vakulabharanam, an associate professor of economics at the University of Hyderabad and a grantee of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, has won the prestigious Amartya Sen Award, a newly instituted honor given by the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research (ICSSR).
-
Working Paper
Grantee paperTechnology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
Apr 2013
This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of technologies, and how have they changed over time; what are the key drivers of technology, and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology.
-
Article
More Services Means Longer Recoveries
Apr 28, 2013
Recovery from recessions takes longer than it has in the past.
-
Article
The rise of economics as engineering II: the case of MIT
Apr 24, 2013
Looming behind the aforementioned narratives of postwar economics is a notion – economics as engineering – which at times appears as a metaphor and at times stands for a straight depiction of economists’ professional milieu and practices.
-
Article
The rise of economics as engineering I : setting the scene
Apr 23, 2013
The rise of the economist as engineer is, economists and historians say, an essential characteristic of the development of economics in the postwar period.
-
Article
Economics Needs Replication
Apr 23, 2013
The recent debate about the reproducibility of the results published by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff offers a showcase for the importance of replication in empirical economics.
-
Article
Young Scholars Will Bring New Economic Thinking
Apr 23, 2013
So why am I hopeful about the future?
-
Article
A chronology of economics at Carnegie (in progress)
Apr 22, 2013
To illustrate the previous post on the difficulties in putting together a chronology, here is tentative chronology of economics at Carnegie. It’s still in process, and links, sources and entries will be updated as I read.
-
Article
Lending in the Dark: China's Shadow Banking Sector
Apr 22, 2013
The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability. But just how extensive – and how risky – is shadow banking in China?
-
Article
On the difficulty of assembling a chronology and other F....moments in history of economics research
Apr 21, 2013
This year, I’m sharing an office with an econometrician on Mondays and with a geographer on Fridays (you don’t want to go into the subtleties of the French educational system).
-
Article
History of applied economics: now what?
Apr 17, 2013
There is a “tendency to neglect applied economics in writing the history of economic thought,” Roger Backhouse and Jeff Biddle remarked in 2000. They then followed the “applied” trail back into the XIXth and early XXth centuries, at a time the scope and nature of economics were debatted by continental and especially British political economists
-
Article
Grantee Arindrajit Dube Examines Reinhart and Rogoff's Causal Claims
Apr 17, 2013
Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2010 paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” has recently come under scrutiny