Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Understanding Bank Liquidity
The shortage of liquidity in the interbank market in China has sparked off a fear of “monetary famine.” This seems rather odd when the national savings rate is 50 per cent of GDP
Should China Deregulate Finance?
You Didn’t Build That: The Entrepreneurial State
A review of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, the new book by Mariana Mazzucato
The rise of economics as engineering II: the case of MIT
Looming behind the aforementioned narratives of postwar economics is a notion – economics as engineering – which at times appears as a metaphor and at times stands for a straight depiction of economists’ professional milieu and practices.
The rise of economics as engineering I : setting the scene
The rise of the economist as engineer is, economists and historians say, an essential characteristic of the development of economics in the postwar period.
Keynesianism, neoliberalism and the 'Dissemination' of Economic Ideas: That's the Way of the World.
It is often argued that in recent years the question of the ‘dissemination’ of economic knowledge has been increasingly addressed by historians of economics.
Why Raising the Minimum Wage Makes Economic Sense
A minimum wage is a small minnow in an ocean of deficient aggregate demand
As Goes Cyprus, So Goes the European Union
All of a sudden, tiny Cyprus is making headlines. How could such a small country, with an economy approximately the size of the State of Maranhao, create such big problems?
Meeting New Challenges in China
Further system reforms will enable China to overcome middle-income trap and push forward social progress
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
ASSA Meetings: a Showcase for the History of Economics?
Economists and historians of economics have related differently over time, and the past of the discipline has then served for varied purposes.