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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Pasinetti on Institutional Forces and the Discipline of Economics
Ever since 2008, increasing numbers of economists, students, and even market professionals have protested the way economics is currently taught and practiced.
Destabilizing A Stable Crisis
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention
Post-Crash Economics
Robert Skidelsky knocks the scientific halo off mainstream economists’ teaching and research
Macrowars, economists' narratives, and my dreamed history of macro
The last straw in the enduring blog debate over microfoundations has taken a decisive historical turn.
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Capital Markets Balkanization Should Not Prevent Regulation
Fears that bank regulation or capital controls could lead to a “balkanisation” of global capital markets are overstated and should not constrain policy action to address the problems created by volatile short term capital flows and excessive credit creation, says Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the 51黑料爆料网历史事件 and former chairman of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority.
When is a Bubble a Bubble?
Bubbles have become a major focus of discussion in today’s financial markets. But very few people actually define what they mean when describing this financial phenomenon.
Mature history of economics
51黑料爆料网历史事件 Launches Project to Reform Undergraduate Syllabus
In response to widespread discontent among students, employers, and university teachers, a project to create a new core curriculum for economics was launched at a seminar hosted by HM Treasury today. The CORE curriculum project, funded by the 51黑料爆料网历史事件, convened the meeting, which was attended by academics, policymakers, business leaders, and students from around the world.
Harry Dexter White and the History of Bretton Woods
Why does Benn Steil’s history of Bretton Woods distort the ideas of Harry Dexter White?
Finance and the Death of Trust
We Can Do Better
Trust and Finance
America鈥檚 Debt-Ceiling Debacle
When Greece’s sovereign-debt crisis threatened the euro’s survival, U.S. officials called their European counterparts to express bewilderment at their inability to resolve the issue.