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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics
Oct 1, 2011
This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.
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Lords of Finance Redux
Oct 1, 2011
Forget the G7, Watch the C5
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Financial Globalization versus the Nation State
Sep 29, 2011
At its core, this rolling crisis is really about financial globalization.
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Europe Ground Zero
Sep 29, 2011
Financial Globalization versus the Nation State
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economics
Sep 24, 2011
I cannot resist but to start quoting Mary Morgan’s second entry to the second edition of the New Palgrave: “Modeling became the dominant methodology of economics during the 20th century.”
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Twisting in the Wind
Sep 24, 2011
While waiting for TALF
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READING ROOM: Adam Curtis on the history of economic think tanks in the UK
Sep 22, 2011
A story about the rise of the modern Think Tank and how in a very strange way they have made thinking impossible.
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China as bank of the world?
Sep 19, 2011
Can the renminbi displace the dollar as the world’s international money?
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Progress in Economics: A Comment
Sep 19, 2011
I thought I could use some of my illegitimate blog administrator’s privileges to participate in the discussion on the “progress in economics” post by Floris without being lost in the midst of other users’ comments.
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Bazooka
Sep 17, 2011
Understanding QE3
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 2. Progress in Economics
Sep 17, 2011
Ok, time to deal with the elephant in the room: when is one theory better than the other? What is progress in economics?
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@Academia and Public, Berlin: Students as model publics
Sep 17, 2011
The transatlantic conference has been moving targets: sociology went first, then economics, then history, today it was political science and international relations.
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@Academia and Public, Berlin: And then it was all about the history...
Sep 15, 2011
It’s not everyday that one finds economists using history as not just the right way but the only way to answer a question.
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Grant application deadline approaching: September 15, 2011
Sep 12, 2011
Reminder
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Bank of the world, three ways
Sep 11, 2011
The U.S., in aggregate, acts as a bank to the rest of the world. The precise role of that bank has evolved over the course of the crisis.