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

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Leakage as historiographic genre @ HES 2012

Jul 26, 2012

If the meetings of European historians of economics are urbane and cosmopolitan, the meetings of American historians are, by contrast, frank and toilful.

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Hogarth and Soyer on the Hollow Men

Jun 30, 2012

A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.

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Economics at Chicago, 1939-1955: the scope of our ignorance

Jun 26, 2012

The University of Chicago is well-known for as the place where a famous group of economists, including Milton Friedman, Georges Stigler, Gary Becker, among others, developed a method for analyzing economic facts based on Marshallian price theory, a vision of the evolution of macroeconomic aggregates called monetarism, and an approach to individual liberties and the role of the state known as (neo)liberalism.