New research presented in the recent American Economic Association’s annual meeting on how women economists are faring in the profession.

This newsletter highlights the issues and research that attracted the greatest interest among our readership over the past twelve months.

What are the characteristics of a “scientized” central bank? The case of the Bank of England.

Recent research papers identify both political and corporate funding bias in economic research.

Minsky vs Kindleberger and why no single theory fully explains economic crises.

Two new research papers on how to model the complexity of economic decisions and its implications for behavior in macro models.

Inflation and trade attracted the most attention this past year!

Insights, criticism  and an interesting vignette.

Which monetary policy stabilizes the economy: monetarist or Keynesian?

The three types of inquiry of economic theory and a new paradigm for economics.