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

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Helicopter money as a policy option

May 29, 2013

‘Helicopter money’ may in some circumstances be the only certain way to stimulate nominal demand

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On the difficulty of assembling a chronology and other F....moments in history of economics research

Apr 21, 2013

This year, I’m sharing an office with an econometrician on Mondays and with a geographer on Fridays (you don’t want to go into the subtleties of the French educational system).

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History of applied economics: now what?

Apr 17, 2013

There is a “tendency to neglect applied economics in writing the history of economic thought,” Roger Backhouse and Jeff Biddle remarked in 2000. They then followed the “applied” trail back into the XIXth and early XXth centuries, at a time the scope and nature of economics were debatted by continental and especially British political economists