Archive
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and its Influence on Market Liberal Policy Norms, c. 1968-2000
This research project investigates the influence of economic doctrines on policy norms in recent decades through analysis of the history of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013Developing a Case for Emotional Finance
This research project explores ways to influence policy, starting with selected UK regulators, pension funds, and asset management groups, by testing the feasibility of “emotional finance” solutions to the prevention of future financial crises.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013Origins of the Graduate Economics Canon in the United States
This research project explores and documents the development of graduate economics training in the leading centers of doctoral education in the United States.
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Grant
Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013Competition and Equality in Imperial China
This research project uncovers the economic forces which reshaped the evolution of the imperial examination system in traditional China, using a new dataset from archival sources of ancient Chinese Books.
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Grant
Years granted: 2013Finance Without Crises
This research project examines the relationship between the creation of money, price formation, and income flows, assuming no restrictions to the volume of credit, while abstracting from the existence of speculative crises and the role of the public sector in the process of monetary creation.
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Grant
Years granted: 2013The Significance of Inequality: Between Economics and Philosophy
This research project shows what economists can learn from political philosophers in thinking about economic inequality while also investigating the philosophical significance of recent empirical work on inequality, within economics and elsewhere.
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News
US Economy on Cliff's Edge: INET's Rob Johnson on the Fiscal Cliff
Dec 30, 2012
What it will mean for the U. S. economy to go over the “fiscal cliff.”?
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Article
2012: A Year in Review
Dec 21, 2012
INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.
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News
The Future of Economics: Bruce Caldwell on History and the Dismal Science
Dec 10, 2012
Your average economics textbook presents the neat image of a discipline with many useful conceptual paradigms for viewing the world. But it almost never gives any sense of how these ideas developed.
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Article
Waste, waste, waste
Dec 9, 2012
Economics is very theoretically comfortable with what may be termed `Keynesian’ waste.
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Article
“Choice Under Uncertainty”: A Misnomer
Dec 7, 2012
The Risk Society
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News
Saving Economics from the Economists
Dec 7, 2012
The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate.
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News
FT Names INET Co-founder Janeway's Book One of the Best of 2012
Dec 3, 2012
Doing Capitalism in the Innovative Economy
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Working Paper
Grantee paperTime Series Forecasting: Model Evaluation and Selection Using Nonparametric Risk Bounds
Nov 2012
We derive generalization error bounds — bounds on the expected inaccuracy of the predictions — for traditional time series forecasting models.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperConventions and the European Periphery
Nov 2012
The European periphery is qualitatively dierent from the core.