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

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The less you know, the better?

Jul 7, 2012

A few days ago, I began researching on the history of a subfield of economics which was born in the sixties, then thrived and institutionalized itself in the early seventies.

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History of Economics Journals in SSCI - a correction

Jun 13, 2012

In a recent post I wrote: “I am sure it will not take long before Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Cambridge Uni. Press) makes that list [Thompson Reuters, Social Science Citation Index].”

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Between science and history

Jun 11, 2012

Last Friday, philosophers from the University of Leiden hosted the symposium ‘Between Science and History,’ in an attempt to figure out what the differences are between practicing scientists’ use of history and historians use of history.