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We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

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Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

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Articles

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

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

Nov 11, 2011

The following text was sent to us by Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman, we reproduce it in its entirety.

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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

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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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Nobel Prize Tasseology

By Beatrice Cherrier

Oct 25, 2011

Till is right. It’s not the historian’s task to question the legitimacy of the decisions of the Nobel Committee.

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“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”

Oct 19, 2011

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Making Markets

By Perry G. Mehrling

Oct 17, 2011

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A Response to John Kay's Essay on the State of Economics

By Roger Guesnerie

Oct 10, 2011

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The Price is wrong

By Daniel H. Neilson

Oct 10, 2011