Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Current Account Rebalancing Since the Crisis
A look at the large role the trade deficit of the United States has played since the 1980s.
Economic Analysis Isn’t Objective – It’s As Personal As It Gets
What happens when professionals lose touch with the people they’re supposed to serve?
Swimming against the Current: A Remembrance of Ronald Coase (1910-2013)
Ronald Coase, who passed away last week at age 102, spent his academic career swimming against the current.
What Was the Real Cost of the Great Recession?
We are coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Lehman crash in September 2008. How bad was it? Have we fixed the problems?
Katharina Pistor: The Legal Theory of Finance
economists still conceive of law too narrowly, mainly as a means to reduce transaction costs and protect investors.
Why Austerity Theory is the Economist's Atomic Bomb
Economic theories are powerful things, to be used and misused. Those who write economic theory and do economic policy need to be aware of the consequences of what they are doing.
Dancing in the Dark: Creating an Economics for the 21st Century
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many of our policy makers and top economists are still stumbling in the dark.
More Services Means Longer Recoveries
Recovery from recessions takes longer than it has in the past.
Grantee Arindrajit Dube Examines Reinhart and Rogoff's Causal Claims
Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2010 paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” has recently come under scrutiny