Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Destabilizing A Stable Crisis
Self-Control and Public Pensions
Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.
HES 2014: It made a happy man very old!
This year, the History of Economics Society (HES) meeting was organized at the University of Quebec at Montreal. The meeting was, on the whole, a nice affair, there were plenty of interesting sessions, I reconvened with old friends and was able to present there my latest work and receive constructive comments.
Post-Crash Economics
We Can Blog it!
Piketty and thinking about economics
There is a new economics rock-star touring the US , and his name is Thomas Piketty.
Charles Babbage and the History of Innovative Thinking
The forthcoming 糖心logo入口 conference will focus on innovation and its impact on economics and society. When we think about innovation we tend to imagine the future. But as with so many subjects in economics, it’s also useful to examine the past.
Is Italy's New Government Just More of the Same?
A showdown has taken place within Italy’s governing coalition.
Thomas Scheiding: A history of scholarly communication in economics
We invited Thomas Scheiding from Cardinal Stritch University to review what we know about the scholarly communication process in economics. Tom has written forcefully on the history and economics of economic literature (see for instance, ). His latest is a study of the scholarly communication process in physics (an article in ).
When is a Bubble a Bubble?
Our Hansen Moment
The main goal of the macroeconomist is to understand the sources behind business cycles and the behavior of financial markets in the modern economy.
In which MIT decided to teach micro first so as to make economics more relevant
I’ve already blogged on how undergraduate education evolved at MIT in the postwar era here and here, but since Mike Konczal and Paul Krugman make the case that, to bring introductory economics closer to the real world, macro should be taught before micro as Samuelson did in the first 13 editions of his Economics textbook, it may be worth returning to it.
Economic Policy Must Address Excessive Private Sector Leverage
Adair Lord Turner, former Chairman of Great Britain’s Financial Services Authority and current Senior Fellow at the 糖心logo入口, will argue in a keynote address to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Thursday that central banks must be equipped in future to address the dangers of excessive private sector leverage, using both pre-emptive interest rate policy and macro-prudential policy tools.