Economics Profession
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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
Jan 31, 2020
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
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Working Paper Series
Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy? Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
Jan 2020
To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology
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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego
Jan 16, 2020
The AEA and the Crisis of Expertise
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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”
Jan 3, 2020
A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics
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Learn the Language of Power
Oct 30, 2019
Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.
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How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
Oct 3, 2019
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
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In Defense of Economic Theory
Oct 2, 2019
Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient
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YSI Successfully Holds Fifth and Final Regional Convening in Asia
Aug 27, 2019
An update from INET’s Young Scholars Initiative
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How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas
Aug 28, 2019
The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right
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Why We Need a Multidisciplinary Economics
Aug 14, 2019
Economics needs to better incorporate other social sciences
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Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Aug 12, 2019
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
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Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
Jul 16, 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
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Change in the Economics Profession Can Come From the Outside
Aug 7, 2019
Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics