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

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Japan's Money Base Will Be 45% of GDP: US and UK is 19%-21%

Apr 4, 2013

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?

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Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?

Mar 20, 2013

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.

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Open to be open to be open…

Jan 8, 2013

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.

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2012: A Year in Review

Dec 21, 2012

INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.

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Krugman and Stiglitz: Crazy Austerity Policies Inflict Untold Damage on Economy

Oct 24, 2012

Two Nobel laureates, an election, and a shaky economy. The message? We can do a whole lot better.

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Welcome to Reading Mas-Colell!

Sep 24, 2012

The blog is intended for any student taking an advanced microeconomics course, any faculty member teaching such material, or indeed anyone interested in microeconomics and its role in the discipline.

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The use of economists' biography, IV.

Sep 23, 2012

Excerpts from a draft introduction of Till Düppe’s and Roy Weintraub’s new book, under revision for Princeton University Press, presently carrying the working title “Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Transformation of Economic Theory

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The Coming Crisis in Municipal Bankruptcy

Jul 30, 2012

Where’s the next economic crisis?