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

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Economics Needs Replication

Apr 23, 2013

The recent debate about the reproducibility of the results published by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff offers a showcase for the importance of replication in empirical economics.

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Voth vs. Ferguson: And How Austerity Leads to Worse Outcomes

Apr 5, 2013

At dinner yesterday Niall Ferguson made the argument that China (or the East) were perhaps no longer looking to how Western countries had built their social institutions and formed their empires, and were instead now doing their own thing as the Western approach was shown to be flawed