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Articles

• On the Scientific Status of Economic Policy: A Tale of Alternative Paradigms, Giorgio Fagiolo and Andrea Roventiniy
• The African Brain Drain: Scope and Determinants, Abdeslam Marfouk
• The allocation of property rights to intangible cultural assets, Sebastian Lechner, Zulia Gubaydullina and Kilian Bizer
• The Problem of Internalisation of Social Costs and the Ideas of Ronald Coase, Enrico, Baffi
• Endogenous Money in the Age of Financial Liberalization, G?r ֺg? Korkut A. Ert?pan>
• Where Did All The Borrowing Go? A Forensic Analysis of the U.S. External Position, Philip R. Lane
• Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Gregory D. Squires
• Islamic Banks and Financial Stability: An Empirical Analysis, Martin Čih᫠and Heiko Hesse
• Unions and Upward Mobility for African-American Workers, John Schmitt
• International Evidence on Well-being, David G. Blanchflower
• Do Technology Shocks Lead to Productivity Slowdowns? Lone E. Christiansen
• The historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime , Julia Buxton
• China's Exchange Rate Policy: A Survey of the Literature, Robert Lafrance
• Can The Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? Analysis Sai Ding And John Knight
• Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourrr and Melanie Ward

• A tale of two audiences: spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football, Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons
• Activists, raiders, and directors: Opportunism and the balance of corporate power, Thomas H. Noe, Michael J. Rebello and Ramana Sonti
• Adam Smith's stages of history, Anthony Brewer
• Foolishness And Identity: Amartya Sen And Adam Smith, Caroline Gerschlager
• Analysing what cannot be modelled: a defence of Marshallian equilibrium analysis, Roger Backhouse

The Economics Profession

• Some Evidence on the Future of Economics, Andrew J Oswald and Hilda Ralsmark
• The Growing Influence of Economics and Economists on Antitrust: An Extended Discussion, Lawrence J. White
• Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party, Ted C. Bergstrom

Economist of the Month: Herman Daly

• Interview: The Irrationality of Homo Economicus
• The Illth of Nations and the Fecklessness of Policy: An Ecological Economist's Perspective
• Uneconomic Growth in Theory and in Fact
• Uneconomic Growth: Conflicting Paradigms
• Steady-State Economics
• Economics in a Full World
• Population, Migration and Globalization
• Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies

The Economy

• A Bailout for America? Terrance Heath
• Fed eyes Nordic-style nationalisation of US banks, Telegraph, UK
• As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record, New York Times
• U.S. current account deficit, Robert E. Scott
• Slump Moves From Wall St. To Main St., Peter s Goodman, NYT

Economics in the News

• Green Politics and Racial Inequality? Marcellus Andrews

Viewpoints

• Fed action leaves underlying instabilities unaddressed, EPI
• Escape from recession: What you should know about the economic stimulus package, Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel
• The Roots of America's Financial Crisis, Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Bombing the US Budget, Pascal Boniface
• Reinventing Europe's Financial Markets, Manfred Weber

Curious

• James Galbraith debates Milton Friedman and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Review

• Making Globalization Work ( Joseph E. Stiglitz) reviewed by Rober Skidelsy

Economists' Blogs

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• Paul Krugman
• Greg Mankiw
• Marginal Revolution
• Mark Thoma
• Dani Rodrik
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• International Political Economy Zone
• Harry Clarke
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