Archive
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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.
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Video
Paul Samuelson and the Neoclassical Synthesis
Jul 24, 2011
Paul Samuelson was both a mathematical micro-economist, working from theorem to proof in the neoclassical tradition, and a committed Keynesian macroeconomist, convinced of the necessity of policy intervention to improve the performance of market economies. How did he square these two sides of himself? Wade Hands goes into the archives to find out.
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When Banks Fail, the Case of Japan
Jul 24, 2011
What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question.
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Article
Who does original research?
Jul 23, 2011
INET is all about thinking new things, and indeed academia is supposed to inspire great thoughts.
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Refinance Euro-style
Jul 21, 2011
Grand Bargain at last?
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Modeling Asset Markets when Knowledge is Ambiguous
Jul 19, 2011
When you flip a coin, you expect heads and tails to show up with a 50% chance each. But what if all you knew was that heads and tails each have a chance of at least 25%? That’s how Scott Condie captures Knightian uncertainty in asset markets.
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Paul Samuelson, Women and the History of Economics (Part 2)
Jul 19, 2011
As part of the tremendous promotion campaign for the 8th edition of his textbook Economics, Samuelson was devoted a feature in the New York Times (February 5, 1970, p. 41).