Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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.
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Macroeconomics in Perspective
Reflections of the Université Catholique de Louvain “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop”
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.
Our Hansen Moment
Mature history of economics
In the thick of it (labels and research)
Historians like labels. X history. History of y. The labels carve out subjects, set boundaries in time and space, at times even suggest methodological commitments.