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

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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

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Great Hospitality or Chance to Innovate?

Apr 4, 2013

Some personal touches to hospitality at the INET conference, although I feel for the people who have been holding that sign all day.

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Kuhn vs Lakatos: it is not the institute of anything goes...

Apr 4, 2013

In his opening remarks, Robert Johnson said that this “is not the institute of anything goes” with INET now getting to a point where it needs to stop criticising the mainstream and should instead “create a new vision.”