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

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Heterodoxy and The Economist

Jan 3, 2012

When I started this blog, almost exactly one year ago today, my thought was to provide commentary on the financial events of the day, using the Financial Times as my primary source of information about those events.

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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.

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We Are Greg Mankiw… or Not?

Nov 19, 2011

Amid mass unemployment and economic turmoil, instructors who lecture on the superiority of free markets without acknowledging the dysfunction in the wider economy are at risk of appearing out of touch and exacerbating antipathy towards economics.