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Articles

• Evolutionary and Institutional Economics as the New Mainstream?, Geoffrey Hodgson
• Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View From Feminist Economics, Julie A. Nelson
• Valuing ecosystem services as productive inputs, Edward B. Barbier
• How much economic freedom is necessary for economic growth? Theory and evidence, Morris Altman
• Monetary Therapy Contraindicated, Jacque Sapir
• An extension of the labour theory of value, Vladimir N. Pokrovskii

Top Papers from New Orleans

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The (Micro) Theory of Price and Profit, William Baumol
• The FOMC vs. the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?, Christina D. Romer
• Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?, Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales
• Superstar Extinction, Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Zivin and Jialan Wang
• Disasters and Recoveries, Francois Gourio
• 35,000 Principles Students: Some Lessons Learned, Kenneth G. Elzinga and Daniel Melaugh
• Assessing A Proficiency Based Economics Program: Weathering The Perfect Storm While Thriving In A New Environment, Steven C. Myers, Michael A. Nelson and Richard W. Stratton
• Innovation by SMEs &Large Firms: Sector Structure and Dynamics, Wilfred Dolfsma
• The Future of the IMF and World Bank, Raghuram Rajan
• Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism, Martin Feldstein
• The Long Run Determinants of the US External Imbalances, Andrea Ferrero
• The Greatest Auction in History, Preston McAfee, Simon Wilkie, John McMillan
• Is Russia's Growth a "Flash in the Pan?", Daniel Berkowitz, Yadviga Semikolenova

Articles You May Have Missed

• Brief Account of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy, William Stanley Jevons
• The Performance of Peer Review and a Beauty Contest of Referee Processes of Economics Journals, Christian Seidl, Ulrich Schmidt and Peter Gr?e

The Economy

• The Real State Of T he Union 2008 By The Numbers, Campaign for America's Future
• The gloomy gospel according to George Soros, Salon
• Britain cannot escape US recession, The Guardian, George Soros
• U.S. economy is Topic No. 1 at World Economic Forum,

Economics in the News

• The Free Market: A False Idol After All? , The New York Times

Reviews

• The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Reviewed by Prema Popat and Benjamin Powell
• Understanding American Capitalism, Its Consequences & Alternatives, Reviewed by Patrice Greanville

Viewpoints

• The Sixty-Year Storm, George Soros
• Two Energy Futures, Jeroen van der Veer
• Automatic Savers, Robert J. Shiller
• Three Cures for Three Crises, J. Bradford DeLong

Economists' Blogs

• Dean Baker
• Brad DeLong
• Paul Krugman
• Greg Mankiw
• Marginal Revolution
• Mark Thoma
• Dani Rodrik
• Naked Capitalism
• Vox
• 2UBH
• International Political Economy Zone

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