Articles

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

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Nobody understands money

Jan 4, 2012

A correspondent sends us to a column of Paul Krugman’s that asserts that “nobody understands debt”. Fair enough.

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Financial (De)Globalization and the European Experiment

Nov 22, 2011

Europe is embarked on a grand experiment, managing modern financial crisis without a dealer of last resort, so refusing to follow the lead of the 2008 Fed.

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Student discontent, teaching economics, and Robin Wells's suggestions for shifting our perspective: A historical case

Nov 20, 2011

On November 2nd, I was sitting in the Hayden Library Special Collection reading room at MIT, browsing archives on the undergraduate and graduate students’ discontent during the early 70s and the response of the economics department faculty.