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

Learning to think about shadow banking
Why most economists did not see the 2008 crash coming
Is Wall Street Doing its Job?

How the computer transformed economics. And didn’t.
The shift toward applied economics in the last 40 years is usually associated with the development of computers and datasets. Yet, the success of computer-based approaches is highly selective, and what computerization failed to change in economics is equally remarkable.

Could fiscal policy changes revive US economic growth? Some contributions towards answering that question
Renewed interest by policymakers in the challenges of long-term slow economic growth highlights the importance of the Institute’s research