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

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Economic “fields” as historical objects (not yet)

Jan 31, 2013

The notion of “field” is so pervasive that economists hardly pay conscious attention to it.

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The challenge of “value-ladeness” for history writing

Jan 30, 2013

Although the objectivity-Grail Quest has ended with total success decades ago (so economists say), the question of the possibility and consequences of economists’ values smuggling into their daily practice still periodically surfaces, and crises make good times for such debates.