Articles

Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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What Even Famous Mainstream Economists Miss About the Cambridge Capital Controversies

By Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia

Jun 15, 2015

Non-mainstream economists are disputing neoclassical ideas about capital.

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Fiscal implications of the ECB’s bond-buying program

By Paul de Grauwe

Jun 14, 2015

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​The rise of financialization has led to lower living standards and reduced growth in the U.S.

By Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Jun 12, 2015

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Thoughts On Skidelsky's Rant Against The Current Economics Curriculum

By Brad Delong

Jun 9, 2015

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Fixing The Financial System: Adam Smith Vs. Jeremy Bentham

By David Vines and Nicholas Morris

Jun 9, 2015

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History of Economics on the Making

By Pedro G. Duarte

Jun 1, 2015

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America’s Competition Fetish Kills Creativity and Produces Human Sheep

By Lynn Parramore

May 28, 2015

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UK Election: A Tale Of Two Nations

By Marshall Auerback

May 11, 2015

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Making Financial Regulations Work for Society

By Anat Admati

May 8, 2015

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Want to Take on Financial and Governmental Corruption? Hire Women.

By Lynn Parramore

May 5, 2015

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How Sociologists Think About Inequality

By Ken-Hou Lin

May 1, 2015

Most sociologists believe that formal and informal institutions are more critical in explaining the rising inequality observed in advanced economies. In this light, changing institutions such as the ascendance of shareholder-centered corporate governance model, finance-friendly policies since the late 70s, credentialism, and deunionization all contribute to the earnings dynamics at different parts of the distribution.

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Why journal editors should commission history papers for their anniversary issues

By Beatrice Cherrier

Apr 23, 2015

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History as Personal Expression — a personal note

By Pedro G. Duarte

Apr 22, 2015

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Our Banking System is a Giant House of Cards

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 21, 2015

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New Climate-Economic Thinking

By Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman

Apr 21, 2015

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How to Recognize New Economic Thinking

By William Janeway

Apr 14, 2015

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We Must Lean Over Backwards

By John Komlos

Apr 14, 2015

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Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election

By Robert Skidelsky

Apr 14, 2015

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New Economic Thinking vs. Hard Political Realities

By Kevin Gallagher

Apr 13, 2015

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False Economic Policy Clichés and General Elections

By Robert Skidelsky

Apr 13, 2015

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Is the Fed Making Inequality Worse? Yes, New Research Shows.

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 11, 2015

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Herr Schauble’s Foibles: The Eurozone Rebalancing Conundrum

By Robert W. Parenteau

Apr 10, 2015

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Marxian Economics: The Oldest Systems Theory Is New Again (or Always?)

By Ravi Bhandari

Apr 9, 2015

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Learning from Karl Polanyi

By Fred Block

Apr 9, 2015

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Inequality or Living Standards: Which Matters More?

By Max Roser, Brian Nolan, and Stefan Thewissen

Apr 9, 2015

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Draghi’s Doom Loop(s): More than Just the Euthanasia of the Rentiers

By Robert W. Parenteau

Apr 7, 2015

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Tap... Tap... Tap... Is This Thing on?

By Brad Delong

Apr 5, 2015

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Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: new ideas for investment-led growth

By Mariana Mazzucato

Mar 19, 2015

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Sir John and Maynard Would Have Rejected the IS-LM Framework for Conducting Macroeconomic Analysis

By Mario Seccareccia and Marc Lavoie

Mar 19, 2015

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The Coming China Crisis

By Richard Vague

Mar 18, 2015

Rapid private-debt growth threw Japan into crisis in 1991 and did the same to the United States and Europe in 2008. China may be next.

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Get a TAN, Yanis: A Timely Alternative Financing Instrument for Greece

By Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 12, 2015

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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals

Mar 10, 2015

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Why Understanding Money Matters in Greece

By Marshall Auerback and Robert W. Parenteau

Mar 6, 2015

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Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 6, 2015

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Drooping Green Shoots

By Lance Taylor

Mar 5, 2015

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Paul Krugman on the MIT History

By Pedro G. Duarte

Mar 2, 2015

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How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 2, 2015

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What does Yanis Varoufakis want?

By Floris Heukelom

Feb 26, 2015

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Finding Till Düppe

By Yann Giraud

Feb 19, 2015

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Statement on Banking and Banking Regulation to The Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

By Edward J. Kane

Feb 17, 2015

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The Wealthless Recovery

By Edward Wolff

Feb 16, 2015

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Why Don't Economists Go to Hollywood Parties?

By Pedro G. Duarte

Feb 15, 2015

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Reflexivity Between Micro and Macroeconomics

By Dennis J. Snower

Feb 10, 2015

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History of Policy Evaluation: A Few Questions

By Beatrice Cherrier

Feb 4, 2015

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What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don’t Tell You About Income Inequality

By Lynn Parramore

Feb 4, 2015

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The Brace is On

By Kevin Gallagher

Feb 3, 2015

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Yes indeed, we can blog it!

By Pedro G. Duarte

Jan 19, 2015

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Financial Deregulation: A Question of Efficiency or Distribution?

By Anton Korinek

Jan 13, 2015

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Bernard Maris (1946-2015), Charlie Hebdo and Incommensurability

By Yann Giraud

Jan 11, 2015

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Greece Shows the Limits of Austerity in the Eurozone. What Now?

By Lynn Parramore

Jan 9, 2015