Articles

Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Banks as creators of money

Apr 30, 2012

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

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How to spend the $75m Janeway and Soros just gave to INET!?!

Apr 13, 2012

Lunch was just interrupted Bill Janeway standing up to announce that this morning he decided to give $25m to INET and the board will fund-raise this up to $100m over ten years, but then George Soros added $50m in unconditional funding for INET.

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Manufacturing jobs will disappear - no matter where you are

Apr 12, 2012

Just as the agricultural share of employment has fallen from 40% in the 1920s to less than 2% of the workforce in Europe today, manufacturing’s share of employment will fall to less than 5% of employment.

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From 1000AD to 1970 the History of World Trade is Based on Fact, After 1970, Fiction?

Mar 28, 2012

Having just started Findlay and O’Rourke’s mammoth in the second millenia, I have been struck by a strange incongruity

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Renminbi Swap Lines

Mar 28, 2012

Last week the central banks of China and Australia announced the creation of

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Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics

Feb 8, 2012

I am writing from my notes. The event I want to report took place some two months ago, I have since been preoccupied, then occupied, and now increasingly overwhelmed.

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Fixed exchange rates

Dec 23, 2011

As we prepare to digest the implications of this week’s ECB move, it seems worthwhile to take a look at the monetary economics of fixed exchange rates.

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John Whittaker: Eurosystem balances explained

Dec 12, 2011

[The following guest post is by from whom we have learned much of what we know about how the European payments system works. See his terrific papers and , both of which reward close study. He has been looking over the last couple Money View posts, and the comments to those posts, and has this to say.]

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A Response to John Kay: Elements of an Evolutionary Paradigm

Nov 17, 2011

INET published a paper, written by John Kay, that deals with the relationship between economics and the world we live in. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics spells out methodological critiques of economic theory in general, and of DSGE models and rational expectations in particular.