Archive
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Article
Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?
Mar 20, 2013
There is a certain rich irony attached to the sight of corrupt Russian oligarchs now posing as liberal champions of the rule of law as they find themselves sucked into the maelstrom of Cyprus’s ongoing financial crisis.
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News
Complex Networks in Finance: Nature Physics Journal on Financial Complexity
Mar 19, 2013
Why Nature Physics has released an issue focusing on physicists and economists considering the state-of-the-art in the application of network science to finance?
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Working Paper
Grantee paperAggregate Demand, Instability, and Growth
Feb 2013
This paper considers a puzzle in growth theory from a Keynesian perspective.
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Working Paper
Journal articleFinancialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008
Feb 2013
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Article
How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will Increase the Deficit
Feb 28, 2013
Why all of the fuss about a nonexistent emergency?
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News
Between Free and Forced Labor
Feb 25, 2013
An innovative new paper by INET grantee Suresh Naidu
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Article
History of Economics and Images: static and dynamic
Feb 23, 2013
There has been an important movement towards making available on the web a host of open courses.
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Webinars and Events
Global Inequality @Columbia
DiscussionFeb 21, 2013
The relatively new field of inequality studies is gaining increasing momentum as economic disparity grows throughout the world, in advanced countries as well as less developed ones—especially in the United States.
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News
IKE Co-founder Michael Goldberg Awarded Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics
Feb 18, 2013
Michael Goldberg was awarded last week the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
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Article
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
Feb 5, 2013
That’s the question that Adair Turner, Chair of the UK Financial Services Authority, was addressing in his lecture to Cass Business School this week.
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News
Adair Turner: How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
Feb 5, 2013
Turner’s speech at the UK Financial Services Authority
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News
What is Shadow Banking?
Feb 4, 2013
ft. INET’s Perry Mehrling
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Article
Economic “fields” as historical objects (not yet)
Jan 31, 2013
The notion of “field” is so pervasive that economists hardly pay conscious attention to it.
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Article
The challenge of “value-ladeness” for history writing
Jan 30, 2013
Although the objectivity-Grail Quest has ended with total success decades ago (so economists say), the question of the possibility and consequences of economists’ values smuggling into their daily practice still periodically surfaces, and crises make good times for such debates.
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Video
Piero Sraffa's Price Theory Without Equilibrium
Jan 28, 2013
Piero Sraffa’s classic work Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities has been variously interpreted as a special case of modern neoclassical general equilibrium or a foundation stone for the revival of the classical tradition of Smith and Ricardo.