Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Finding Till Düppe
The Brace is On
Yes indeed, we can blog it!
Financial Deregulation: A Question of Efficiency or Distribution?
How can we better protect Main Street from the externalities of Wall Street?
Bernard Maris (1946-2015), Charlie Hebdo and Incommensurability
As you may remember, I had decided to cease contributing to this blog a few months ago. Nevertheless, I thought I could use my completely illegitimate administrator rights to post one last piece dealing with the recent events in France
They called it a sunspot
Why Keynes is Important Today
The man who will not win the Nobel
Last Spring Larry Summers wounded Thomas Piketty in a friendly embrace.
Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe
The question of underdevelopment and development policies in postwar Europe will be the theme of a workshop organized by Michele Alacevich, Sandrine Kott, and Mark Mazower, at Columbia University, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Friday, October 10, 2014. The program is available here. Below are some of Alacevich’s insights on the issue leading up the event:
Destabilizing A Stable Crisis
Readers of Minsky are familiar with the idea that governments should act as financial stabilizing agents for their economies by running surpluses in times of boom and deficits in times of crises.
Top incomes and the glass ceiling
The glass ceiling is typically examined in terms of the distribution of earnings. This column discusses the glass ceiling in the gender distribution of total incomes, including self-employment and capital income. Evidence from Canada and the UK shows we are still far from equality. Though the proportion of women in the top 1% has been rising, the progress is slower, almost non-existent, at the very top of the distribution.
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention
Post-Crash Economics
We Can Blog it!
The more reflexive mode brought by the financial crisis to macroeconomics made economists more outspoken about methodological, historical and sociological issues: how have we come to the DSGE dogma? What are its limitations? How can we produce alternative knowledge? Do publishing practices favor a “monolithic” thinking, and if so, how can we change it? What about the graduate training in economics?