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INET Executive Director Robert Johnson delivered a keynote address at the OECD Forum in Paristoday.

Who does the economist serve: powerful interests or society?

Mathematician Michael Edesess has a dose of reality for economists.

What’s wrong with our economic recovery?

Attendees at the book party were treated to an assortment of wine, sushi, and intriguing conversation on the rooftop of Schiffrin’s parents’ Upper West Side apartment.

We investigate the effects of government spending on U.S. economic activity using a threshold version of a structural vector autoregressive model.

“While it’s incredibly difficult to get a regulatory reform passed, it’s far easier – and more profitable to politicians – to kill it.

Being the smartest guys in the room doesn’t prevent you from making bad decisions.

Here is a talk I gave recently at Wake Forest University.

Our usual problem in history (of economics) is a lack of information.

Human beings aren’t mechanical. And mechanistic economic theories can’t account for uncertainty or political instability and individual creativity.

The topic of this session of the INET conference is a question: does the effectiveness of fiscal policy in stabilizing an economy depend on the underlying economic context in which the policy is implemented?

The paper deals with the mysterious persistence of the Chicago approach as the main analytical engine driving antitrust enforcement in the US.

In conversation recently, I was called upon to defend the claim that banks are in the business of creating and destroying private money.

The Washington Consensus is dead.