Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Detroit, and the Bankruptcy of America’s Social Contract
What does the bankruptcy of Detroit say about the US social contract?
Should China Deregulate Finance?
Why Austerity Theory is the Economist's Atomic Bomb
Economic theories are powerful things, to be used and misused. Those who write economic theory and do economic policy need to be aware of the consequences of what they are doing.
You Didn’t Build That: The Entrepreneurial State
A review of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, the new book by Mariana Mazzucato
More Services Means Longer Recoveries
Recovery from recessions takes longer than it has in the past.
The rise of economics as engineering II: the case of MIT
Looming behind the aforementioned narratives of postwar economics is a notion – economics as engineering – which at times appears as a metaphor and at times stands for a straight depiction of economists’ professional milieu and practices.
Reinhart and Rogoff Respond to Criticism
INET Advisory Board members Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff today issued a response to recentcriticism of their paper “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their response in full is below.
Keynesianism, neoliberalism and the 'Dissemination' of Economic Ideas: That's the Way of the World.
It is often argued that in recent years the question of the ‘dissemination’ of economic knowledge has been increasingly addressed by historians of economics.
I Have to Act Like an Adult in Hong Kong
The INET conference in Hong Kong is serious business.
As Goes Cyprus, So Goes the European Union
All of a sudden, tiny Cyprus is making headlines. How could such a small country, with an economy approximately the size of the State of Maranhao, create such big problems?
How Do We Get Out of This Mess?
Paul Samuelson and the History of Economics
Paul Samuelson is well-known to have been a compulsive citer and for having a particular Whig program for the history of economics