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

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Charles Babbage and the History of Innovative Thinking

Apr 7, 2014

The forthcoming Institute for New Economic Thinking conference will focus on innovation and its impact on economics and society. When we think about innovation we tend to imagine the future. But as with so many subjects in economics, it’s also useful to examine the past.

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Thomas Scheiding: A history of scholarly communication in economics

Feb 10, 2014

We invited Thomas Scheiding from Cardinal Stritch University to review what we know about the scholarly communication process in economics. Tom has written forcefully on the history and economics of economic literature (see for instance, his 2009 JEM article). His latest is a study of the scholarly communication process in physics (an article in Studies).