Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
On the Link between Inequality, Credit, and Macroeconomic Crises
To what extant do existing mainstream models properly address issues such as heterogeneity and interactions, which are considered central ingredients to understand economic crises as emergent, endogenous phenomena.
Economics Needs Replication
A chronology of economics at Carnegie (in progress)
To illustrate the previous post on the difficulties in putting together a chronology, here is tentative chronology of economics at Carnegie. It’s still in process, and links, sources and entries will be updated as I read.
I like IKE
Imperfect knowledge economics, or IKE to their friends, is popular with all the popular kids. George Soros, Bill Janeway and Anatole Kaletsky were in attendance as Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg - or more properly, their students - showed the latest work in progress.
Japan's Money Base Will Be 45% of GDP: US and UK is 19%-21%
Japan is going to double its money supply, according to today’s front page of the Financial Times (5 April 2013), and a salient question might be what we should compare that to. It sounds like a lot, but is it?
Meeting New Challenges in China
Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?
There is a certain rich irony attached to the sight of corrupt Russian oligarchs now posing as liberal champions of the rule of law as they find themselves sucked into the maelstrom of Cyprus’s ongoing financial crisis.
How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will Increase the Deficit
Why all of the fuss about a nonexistent emergency?
Open to be open to be open…
INET has chosen the label “openness” to describe New Economic Thinking - “open” for other disciplines, for other methods, for other questions, for other interpretations, etc. It’s easy to hurrah.
2012: A Year in Review
INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.
Waste, waste, waste
Blending the Economy and Science
OMT: Slouching toward Eurobills?