Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Why Economics Curriculum Needs Historical Context?
Can Economists Be Adequate Without Studying History?
Post-Crash Economics
We Can Blog it!
Economics as engineering III: Carnegie stories
The “economics and engineering” line of argument is
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Reflections of the Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop”
Roiling India Politics Risks Economic Reforms
India’s economic leaders are determined to rein in skyrocketing inflation, but the country’s volatile political landscape may prevent reforms from taking hold.
Our Hansen Moment
Mature history of economics
In the thick of it (labels and research)
Historians like labels. X history. History of y. The labels carve out subjects, set boundaries in time and space, at times even suggest methodological commitments.
Do social movements create new ideas?
The short answer is yes. For the long answer I will make you sit through seven paragraphs.
Finance and the Death of Trust
We Can Do Better
Trust and Finance
Finance is built on trust. It is based on promises about tomorrow, often paper promises backed by nothing other than words on a page. When trust in those promises breaks down, so too does the financial system. That is the lesson of thousands of years of history.
The World Needs Eurobonds Now More Than Ever
The United States government openly flirting with a default on its debt is, to the financial system, like a Pope wondering out loud about the existence of God.
What is Economic Success?
Trade Deals Must Allow for Regulating Finance
World leaders who are gathering for the APEC summit next week had hoped to be signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The pact would bring together key Pacific-rim countries into a trading bloc that the United States hopes could counter China’s growing influence in the region.