Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
The use of economists' biography, I.
Robert Solow, “Notes on Coping.” In Szenberg ed. Eminent Economists: their Life Philosophy, 1992, p270
A Quick One (Message to Naomi)
Sleepwalking with Heiner
The fix was in
In Friday’s FT, former Morgan Stanley trader Douglas Keenan traces banks’ LIBOR manipulations back to 1991, when he observed, from the futures desk, LIBOR fixings come in at levels different from where he new the market to be.
Leakage as historiographic genre @ HES 2012
If the meetings of European historians of economics are urbane and cosmopolitan, the meetings of American historians are, by contrast, frank and toilful.
The less you know, the better?
The Visible Hand Writing History
Hogarth and Soyer on the Hollow Men
A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.
Economics at Chicago, 1939-1955: the scope of our ignorance
The University of Chicago is well-known for as the place where a famous group of economists, including Milton Friedman, Georges Stigler, Gary Becker, among others, developed a method for analyzing economic facts based on Marshallian price theory, a vision of the evolution of macroeconomic aggregates called monetarism, and an approach to individual liberties and the role of the state known as (neo)liberalism.
Between science and history
Contextualizing one and other @ ESHET 2012
My attempt at a double riddle. “I find familiar faces only in unfamiliar places. Who am I? And whom are the faces?” The answer to the first is, I am an academic, to the second, my conference buddies.
Maynard's Revenge: A Review
Below is a revised version of a talk I gave at the New School University, at a conference to launch Lance Taylor’s latest book. The date of the event was April 28, 2011, more than a year ago, and the delay in revision was entirely my fault—overcommitment and pressing deadlines on many fronts. Sorry about that.
Maynard's Revenge: A Review
Let me tell you everything
Banks as creators of money
Mehrling on Soros
The text below is the comment I offered on Mr. Soros’ opening speech at INET’s Berlin Conference April 12, 2012. The text of Mr. Soros’ own speech is here. Video of the entire session is below—my bit starts at 55:00.
Feelings Offstage
INET Berlin 2012 - back home again. On stage, it’s been a huge amount of claims, assertions, and arguments about what went wrong, about what exactly happened, about why this time was different, about what will certainly happen, and about what remains deeply uncertain, about what “we” shall do about it, about what “we” could do better.
Asking questions about paradigms and INET
Dinner has already rolled around on what has been a quick day.