Archive
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The government and the market
Jul 11, 2011
Mention the government and the market and all academic reflection and civilized discussion dissolves into heated monologues. Politicians are an extreme case.
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INET and CIGI Award Spring 2011 Grants
Jul 11, 2011
INET and CIGI Award Spring 2011 Grants: The grants offer a diversity of approaches and global perspectives that target critical issues that have been neglected by conventional economic analysis.
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Why Economics Needs History
Jul 10, 2011
What challenges will China have to surmount in order to make its currency a true international currency?
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Ron Paul's Modest Proposal
Jul 8, 2011
A Monetary Rorschach Test
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How Investors Use Stories to Tame Uncertainty
Jul 4, 2011
If you want to understand how fund managers choose a portfolio, why not ask them?
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A PBoC balance sheet primer
Jul 4, 2011
Last time, I looked at the Chinese property market. The last link in that chain of financial interlinkages is the People’s Bank of China, the Chinese central bank.
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Introducing the Jazz economist
Jul 3, 2011
You would have thought that to be a “jazz economist” was a good thing. I first imagined a “cool cat” that would entrance the hearts and minds of the populace. Not so.
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HES 2011, Paul Samuelson and the Beatles
Jun 30, 2011
So, how hard is it to write the history of exceptional figures? Shall we buy film cameras?
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Why Economics Needs the History of Thought
Jun 29, 2011
Who is going to teach fields like economic methodology and the history of economic thought if these fields aren’t taught to current graduate students?
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Check out the New Book “Capitalism 4.0” by Anatole Kaletsky
Jun 27, 2011
Anatole Kaletsky explains the recent global crisis in sweeping historical context, and points out the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity now opening up to economists - particularly the younger generation.
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Can It Happen Again?
Jun 26, 2011
The view from BIS
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Disdain or paranoia for historians of economics?
Jun 26, 2011
The organizers of Duke’s Summer Institute on the history of economics were so worried that students might be embarrassed to ask their supervisors for a letter of recommendation, or that the supervisors would say it’s a waste of time to study history, so they took a last minute decision to cancel the need for a letter of recommendation.
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Was Adam Smith a communist?
Jun 22, 2011
In his two-tome, 1400 page Dutch Leerboek der Staathuishoudkunde (Textbook of Economics), first published in 1884, Nicolaas Pierson (1839 - 1909) accuses the great Scotsman of being a communist – or at least of consciously clearing the way for the socialists with their ideal of a communist society.
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Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?
Jun 21, 2011
The Political Economy of Debt
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Shocks
Jun 21, 2011
The financial and economic crises started by the fall of Lehman Borthers came as a big shock, a financial shock, an economic shock, a psychological shock, and a political shock among others.