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

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The rise of economics as engineering II: the case of MIT

Apr 24, 2013

Looming behind the aforementioned narratives of postwar economics is a notion – economics as engineering – which at times appears as a metaphor and at times stands for a straight depiction of economists’ professional milieu and practices.

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Reinhart and Rogoff Respond to Criticism

Apr 16, 2013

INET Advisory Board members Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff today issued a response to recentcriticism of their paper “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their response in full is below.

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Keynesianism, neoliberalism and the 'Dissemination' of Economic Ideas: That's the Way of the World.

Apr 15, 2013

It is often argued that in recent years the question of the ‘dissemination’ of economic knowledge has been increasingly addressed by historians of economics.