Archive
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News
Soros To Germany: Lead or Leave
Sep 9, 2012
INET co-founder George Soros is calling on Germany to lead Europe out of its economic doldrums or get out of monetary union altogether.
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Article
Keynes's 10 Professors... and a Major
Sep 1, 2012
I thought I was on to an inside reference when re-reading the General Theory when Keynes calls Marx, Edgeworth and others simply by name, but refers to “Professor Pigou” in several instances.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperIncome Distribution, Credit and Fiscal Policies in an Agent-Based Keynesian Model
Aug 2012
This work studies the interactions between income distribution and monetary and fiscal policies in terms of ensuing dynamics of macro variables (GDP growth, unemployment, etc.) on the grounds of an agent-based Keynesian model.
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Article
Holiday announcements... History at the ASSA
Aug 21, 2012
Mid August, with the Olympics over, Paralympics and Premiership starting (that’s Soccer for the American readership), it is well and truly the quiet period for most of academia.
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News
Felix Salmon: Curb High-Frequency Trading and End the Stock Market “War Zone”
Aug 13, 2012
When Felix Salmon looks at the global equities market he sees a world of free-for-all electronic warfare that likely would be more recognizable to Isaac Asimov than Milton Friedman.
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'Economists at Fault for Recent Crises': An Interview with the Bank of England's Andy Haldane
Aug 7, 2012
In a recent interview, INET Advisory Board member and Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of EnglandAndy Haldane took aim at the economics profession.
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Ben Bernanke to Economists: More Philosophy, Please
Aug 6, 2012
This week Bernanke spoke to the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, and, as Bloomberg Businessweek notes, he was singing a different tune.
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Article
Sleepwalking with Heiner
Aug 3, 2012
A Response to Heiner Flassbeck’s questions about the Institute’s Council on the Euro Crisis
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News
Deleveraging Redfined - Part 2: Martin Wolf on the Least-Bad Alternative
Aug 1, 2012
“You can’t get out of debt by adding more debt.”
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News
Deleveraging Redefined: Martin Wolf Explains “That Sinking Feeling”
Jul 31, 2012
How to explain the current recession facing the US and the world? Does so-called “austerian” logic provide the solution? Or is it doing more harm than good?
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Article
The Coming Crisis in Municipal Bankruptcy
Jul 30, 2012
Where’s the next economic crisis?
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Article
The ECB Can Save the Euro – But It Has To Change Its Business Model
Jul 29, 2012
Paul De Grauwe raises very important questions on the institutional structure of Europe and how it must be modified to fortify the euro zone.
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Article
Paul de Grauwe: The ECB Can Save the Euro – But It Has To Change Its Business Model
Jul 29, 2012
In what sense are central banks really independent? From whom are they independent? For whom in society do they deliver?
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Article
The ECB Can Save the Euro – But It Has To Change Its Business Model
Jul 29, 2012
How must the European institutional structure be modified to fortify the euro zone?
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Article
The fix was in
Jul 28, 2012
In Friday’s FT, former Morgan Stanley trader Douglas Keenan traces banks’ LIBOR manipulations back to 1991, when he observed, from the futures desk, LIBOR fixings come in at levels different from where he new the market to be.