Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Charles Babbage and the History of Innovative Thinking
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.
Is Italy's New Government Just More of the Same?
A showdown has taken place within Italy’s governing coalition.
Thomas Scheiding: A history of scholarly communication in economics
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).