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

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Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics

Feb 8, 2012

I am writing from my notes. The event I want to report took place some two months ago, I have since been preoccupied, then occupied, and now increasingly overwhelmed.

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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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Fixed exchange rates

Dec 23, 2011

As we prepare to digest the implications of this week’s ECB move, it seems worthwhile to take a look at the monetary economics of fixed exchange rates.