History

How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy

To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology

A Seminar of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, by Maria Cristina Marcuzo

Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration

This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy.

Political theorist Wendy Brown explores new threats to democracy and society

National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System

This paper analyzes the early stages of the formation of the Common Market.

This essay deals with the contradictory dynamics that engulfed Europe from 1959 to 1979, the year of the launching of the European Monetary System.

This essay deals with the EMS experience and its failure, with the Maastricht Treaty, and with the interregnum leading to the formation of the EMU in 1999.

Author Jeremy Lent argues that western conceptual frameworks with roots in the Stone Age push us towards disaster. Time to let them go?

Cambridge-INET is proud to announce a major conference on Keynes’s 1919 book.

An animated look at economic history with Robert Skidelsky

An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality

The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right