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

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These dangerous postmodern relativists, Part I: Merchants of doubt

Nov 14, 2011

A recent e-mail conversation I had with Harro Maas concerning one of my latest drafts (shameless self-promotion) made me buy and read Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s, Merchants of Doubts.

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Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman: How can history stimulate new economic thinking?

By Tiago Mata

Nov 11, 2011

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Backhouse and Bateman want Worldly Philosophers, not only dentists; not everyone agrees

By Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Nov 9, 2011

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Toxic Textbooks

By Edward Fullbrook

Nov 7, 2011

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Toxic Textbooks

By Edward Fullbrook

Nov 7, 2011

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Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)

By Beatrice Cherrier

Nov 3, 2011

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Imagining a New Intro Economics

Nov 2, 2011

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Economics in Uncertain Times

By Perry G. Mehrling

Nov 2, 2011

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What's in a name?

By Floris Heukelom

Nov 2, 2011

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Euro Summit Statement Explained

By Perry G. Mehrling

Oct 27, 2011

Okay, so here is the statement, but what does it mean? Felix Salmon offers an unnamed advisor’s flowchart. Let’s see if Money View thinking can do better.

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NGDP target, in practice

By Daniel H. Neilson

Oct 25, 2011

Last week Goldman Sachs published a note in favor of the Fed’s adopting a formal nominal GDP target, while Fed-watchers caught a whiff of a possible change in policy in the works.

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