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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Police Shootings, Economics, and Empirics
In the past month, analysts from all disciplines have tried to make sense out of shooting deaths of blacks by police and also ambush attacks of police.
From Brexit to the Future
Channeling Charles Kindleberger on Brexit
The economic historian would have seen the British vote to leave the European Union as part of a larger drama of centralization versus pluralism
Crisis After Brexit: Let us put an end to the old Europe of denigrators
No, it’s not bureaucracy that is to blame - It’s the EU that has a problem, because urged by Germany it has pushed a kind of naive globalization, the outgrowths of which contribute to the upswing of dim-witted populists. Not only in the EU. Time for a new paradigm.
Economics in a Different Key
Brexit: The Tectonic Plates
A Bridge From Brexit
Brexit and the Future of Europe
In Memoriam, Jack Treynor
Remarks at a memorial service for pioneering financial analyst Jack Treynor Memorial, MIT Chapel, June 19, 2016
Economists are Divided over Brexit
Some predict global economic catastrophe if Britain votes to leave the EU, others foresee a more limited set of consequences — and some see a telling trend in the public ignoring economists’ warnings
From Keynes to Lucas, and Beyond
How to relax and start loving the robots
Anxiety over human labor being replaced by cyborgs may be in vogue, but it’s overblown — machines may help us achieve healthier and more meaningful lives
Rebirth of the School: Why We Invested in the History of Economic Thought Website
The Institute is proud to welcome the revival of an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the evolution of economics in context
How the term “mainstream economics” became mainstream: a speculation
From 1958 onward, the back cover of Paul Samuelson’s bestselling textbook, Economics, showed a family-tree of economists. The diagram’s evolution, in particular its use of the term “mainstream economics,” reflected, and, I speculate, influenced how economists came to perceive the structure of their discipline.
The History of Economic Thought website is reborn
I am pleased to announce that the History of Economic Thought Website is back. I am thankful for the assistance of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which has supported its revival and made it possible.
Is Wall Street Doing its Job?
Improving the Teaching of Econometrics
A major shift is needed in the Econometrics curriculum for both graduate and undergraduate teaching to include modern topics.