Archive
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Professors share their experience with teaching intro economics
Aug 17, 2011
In response to the walkout staged by students in the intro economics class at Harvard, the Institute launched the syllabus project, 30 Ways to Teach Economics.
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Financial Fragility in a Network of Trade Credit
Aug 16, 2011
The physicist Sorin Solomon begins to feel dizzy when the economist Leanne Ussher talks econ lingo. Yet he listens, because the two of them have found a productive area of collaboration: some economic phenomena, they find, can be explained without recourse to the quirks that feed into human decision making.
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Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
Aug 16, 2011
The Nobel Memorial Prize defines high achievement in economics, and it validates the discipline’s claim for scientific authority. And yet, historically, it can be understood as a reflection of domestic policy conflicts in Sweden.
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Banks: How Big Is too Big?
Aug 15, 2011
We all know it: The financial sector is bloated and banks are too big to fail. But just how bloated is it, and how much should it be shrunk?
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How to Avoid Herding in Research
Aug 15, 2011
An individual fish reduces the danger to itself by swimming as close as possible to the center of the school. That is how schools hold together.
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The long - and tedious - road to rankings
Aug 15, 2011
To celebrate its 100 years of publishing, the AER published a special issues, whose retrospective part consisted of a list of the 20 most important articles, assembled by a committee which included Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, and an essay on the history of the AER by Robert A. Margo.
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What Finance (and Economics) Can Learn from Law
Aug 14, 2011
Without law and legal institutions, financial markets won’t work. That’s what economists discovered about 15 years ago, when former socialist countries turned towards capitalism.
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Of the difference between the historian and the filmmaker
Aug 12, 2011
Months ago, I got a message from a friend that was a swift and excited line: Errol Morris was writing a series of posts about science, even more remarkable about Thomas Kuhn.
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Copper standard
Aug 9, 2011
I am late to the party on the inventive use of copper by Chinese companies seeking alternative sources of funds.
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Okay, leadership, but by whom?
Aug 5, 2011
And heading where?
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Haircuts and Instability
Aug 2, 2011
Updating Hawtrey for the Shadow Banking System
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Economics and Politics
Aug 2, 2011
Economics and politics go hand in hand, we all know that.
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News
INET and CIGI are Now Accepting Research Proposals for the Fall 2011 Grant Program
Aug 1, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking and The Centre for International Governance Innovation are calling for new research proposals in areas of vital importance to the field of economics for the Fall 2011 grants cycle.
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Moral Hazard in Congress
Jul 28, 2011
Fed to the Rescue?
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When $3 trillion is not enough
Jul 26, 2011
I interviewed Victor Shih, political scientist at Northwestern, at INET’s Bretton Woods conference earlier this year.