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In the Archives
Apr 26, 2011
Taking a quick break from my work in the Samuelson archives – so fascinating, believe me! – I can’t resist sharing the following, which I found in his correspondence files.
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Exit Strategy, or New Normal
Apr 23, 2011
War Reparations, or Prosperity
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Pop Archives
Apr 20, 2011
I was just amused with two projects by Shaun Usher: to “gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos” in his blog Letters of Note, and to present interesting letterheads in his Letterheadyblog.
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Inside Economics
Apr 18, 2011
Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job forces us to fundamentally rethink the connections between economics and policy making.
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After QE2, what then?
Apr 17, 2011
And what was QE about anyway?
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INET and reforming economic education: can history help?
Apr 13, 2011
One INET project is to “reconnect the teaching of economics with the working of the actual economy,” which is to begin with a reform of the undergraduate curriculum.
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TSLF and the price of good collateral
Apr 13, 2011
In my last post I argued that if we want a Fed that is ready for the next crisis, we had better understand what happened to it during the last one.
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Upon leaving Mount Washington
Apr 13, 2011
The place invites poetry. By the way, all sessions can be viewed from the website – check out in particular the last session featuring Gillian Tett of the Financial Times moderating a discussion between Paul Volcker and George Soros
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A new K-hero
Apr 12, 2011
I was not in Bretton Woods this week. I followed the event through the videos posted on the INET website and the exhilarating and exhausting experience of Benjamin, Floris and Tiago.
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When my heart skipped a beat
Apr 10, 2011
I am writing a paper about an economist that was at the Treasury in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Who’s the INETiest of them all?
Apr 10, 2011
There are a lot of universities represented here, but who are the most likely candidates for participation and who might one expect INET to be interested in?
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Of history repeating…
Apr 9, 2011
The Bretton Woods conference has a protean character.Talk in the corridors asks “what is it?” Some in the press (lots of press here) believe that deals are being made, the attendance of heavy hitters leads some to believe that consultations and strategies are being outlined for world government (Summers, Stiglitz, Brown, and yesterday Volcker arrived to close the event).
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Interview with Barry Eichengreen, any requests?
Apr 9, 2011
We have been talking and video interviewing people at the conference, and we’ve narrowed down a small list of questions which we try to build on and have so far talked to Kenneth Rogoff, Brad DeLong, Ha-Joon Chang, Stephen Ziliak, Philippe Aghion, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Barry Eichengreen and tomorrow we start with James Galbraith.
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Anglo-Saxons versus the Germans
Apr 9, 2011
For one and a half days we had Anglo-Saxons talking finance and financial crisis: Keynesian stimuli, surplus countries bashing, drawing China in, and bullying of the Euro area and in particular Germany’s role in it.
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The Future of the Fed
Apr 6, 2011
The Fed changed over the course of the global financial crisis.