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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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How the term “mainstream economics” became mainstream: a speculation
From 1958 onward, the back cover of Paul Samuelson’s bestselling textbook, Economics, showed a family-tree of economists. The diagram’s evolution, in particular its use of the term “mainstream economics,” reflected, and, I speculate, influenced how economists came to perceive the structure of their discipline.
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Should the state be doing more to fix the economy?
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Improving the Teaching of Econometrics
A major shift is needed in the Econometrics curriculum for both graduate and undergraduate teaching to include modern topics.