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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
These dangerous postmodern relativists, Part I: Merchants of doubt
A recent e-mail conversation I had with Harro Maas concerning one of my latest drafts (shameless self-promotion) made me buy and read Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s, Merchants of Doubts.
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
Okay, so here is the statement, but what does it mean? Felix Salmon offers an unnamed advisor’s flowchart. Let’s see if Money View thinking can do better.
NGDP target, in practice
Last week Goldman Sachs published a note in favor of the Fed’s adopting a formal nominal GDP target, while Fed-watchers caught a whiff of a possible change in policy in the works.
Nobel Prize Tasseology
Making Markets
The Price is wrong
First Liquidity, then Solvency
The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics
The reputation of economics and economists, never high, has been a victim of the crash of 2008.
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics
This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.
Twisting in the Wind
China as bank of the world?
Progress in Economics: A Comment
Bazooka
Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 2. Progress in Economics
Ok, time to deal with the elephant in the room: when is one theory better than the other? What is progress in economics?
@Academia and Public, Berlin: Students as model publics
The transatlantic conference has been moving targets: sociology went first, then economics, then history, today it was political science and international relations.
Fizzle at Jackson Hole
Disaggregate, disaggregate!
Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
Professors share their experience with teaching intro economics
In response to the walkout staged by students in the intro economics class at Harvard, the Institute launched the syllabus project, 30 Ways to Teach Economics.
The long - and tedious - road to rankings
To celebrate its 100 years of publishing, the AER published a special issues, whose retrospective part consisted of a list of the 20 most important articles, assembled by a committee which included Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, and an essay on the history of the AER by Robert A. Margo.
Economics and Politics
Moral Hazard in Congress
When $3 trillion is not enough
Who does original research?