Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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
Reinhart and Rogoff Respond to Criticism
INET Advisory Board members Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff today issued a response to recentcriticism of their paper “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their response in full is below.
I Have to Act Like an Adult in Hong Kong
The INET conference in Hong Kong is serious business.
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
The challenge of “value-ladeness” for history writing
Although the objectivity-Grail Quest has ended with total success decades ago (so economists say), the question of the possibility and consequences of economists’ values smuggling into their daily practice still periodically surfaces, and crises make good times for such debates.
Paul Samuelson and the History of Economics
Paul Samuelson is well-known to have been a compulsive citer and for having a particular Whig program for the history of economics
2012: A Year in Review
Waste, waste, waste
Blending the Economy and Science
For one more time traveling closer to home – Mainz! It’s been the annual meeting of the German Society of the History of Science (the kind of academic club one has to be nominated for membership).