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

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Monetary Policy in a Post-Crisis World: Beyond the Taylor Rule

Sep 9, 2016

We know about emergency lending, but what we are missing is the macroeconomic framework to guide a new rule for stabilization policy

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There Isn’t Really a ‘Mainstream’ at All

Aug 11, 2016

There is a mix of common-sense opinions, political prejudices, conventional business practice, and pragmatic rules of thumb, supported in an ad hoc, opportunistic way by bits and pieces of economic theory.

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The strange fate of economists' interest in collective decision-making

Aug 9, 2016

How economists turned to the study of collective decision-making after World War II, faced many impossibilities, and lost interest after solving them