Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
A sparsity based model of bounded rationality
A more realistic version of how people “maximize utility”
Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty
Apple should be returning profits to workers who have invested their time and effort into generating its products and to taxpayers who have funded the investments in the physical infrastructure and human knowledge so critical to Apple’s success.
How Financialization Leads To Income Inequality
The paper referenced in this post, “Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008,” recently was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Article Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association.
All Together Now?: Inequality and Growth in US Metro Areas
With the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, the American public has become increasingly concerned about the scale and impact of inequality in economic life.
How to Make Economics Students More Critical and Adaptive Thinkers?
Can we learn something from philosophy students?
Self-Control and Public Pensions
The Nature of Invention
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 part of economists’ rhetoric.