Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
What's Holding Back Reform in Economics?
Before reforming economics, we need to reform the discourse.
The Nature of Invention
Why Economics Curriculum Needs Historical Context?
Can Economists Be Adequate Without Studying History?
Post-Crash Economics
Robert Skidelsky knocks the scientific halo off mainstream economists’ teaching and research
We Can Blog it!
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Macroeconomics in Perspective
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.
Capital Markets Balkanization Should Not Prevent Regulation
Fears that bank regulation or capital controls could lead to a “balkanisation” of global capital markets are overstated and should not constrain policy action to address the problems created by volatile short term capital flows and excessive credit creation, says Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former chairman of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority.
Mature history of economics
Do social movements create new ideas?
The short answer is yes. For the long answer I will make you sit through seven paragraphs.
Institute for New Economic Thinking Launches Project to Reform Undergraduate Syllabus
In response to widespread discontent among students, employers, and university teachers, a project to create a new core curriculum for economics was launched at a seminar hosted by HM Treasury today. The CORE curriculum project, funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, convened the meeting, which was attended by academics, policymakers, business leaders, and students from around the world.
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.