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

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Some Considerations on ‘Rationality’

Oct 5, 2012

In this post, I would like to explore the views of preferences and behavior outlined in MWG Ch.1, and specifically the view of rationality developed in this first chapter.

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The use of economists' biography, II.

Sep 17, 2012

Excerpts from “Retrospect and Prospect,” the concluding remarks Bob Coats presented at (or maybe wrote after) the History of Economics conference held in 1972 at Bellagio to commemorate and reassess the 1870s “marginal revolution” (full proceedings here).

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The use of economists' biography, I.

Sep 17, 2012

Robert Solow, “Notes on Coping.” In Szenberg ed. Eminent Economists: their Life Philosophy, 1992, p270