Economy Track, EPI
Primer on Modern Monetary Theory, Archive, Wray
How does JK Galbraith’s The New Industrial Estate hold up after 6 decades? Steve Keen 3/23
You’re the Real Job Creator: An interview with Stephanie Kelton, N+1 4/20
The Robots Are Not Coming, Henwood, Jacobin 2/20
The Student Debt Crisis, Labor Market Credentialization, and Racial Inequality: How the Current Student Debt Debate Gets the Economics Wrong, Morgan & Steinbaum, Roosevelt Instit., 10/18
Understanding the importance of monopsony power in the U.S. labor market, Bahn, Equitable Growth, 7/18
Monetary policy without a working theory of inflation
Time for Politicians to Stop Deficit Fearmongering, Kelton, Realnews 10/17
How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators, Parramore, INET 10/17
Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics JMKeynes slides , Zaccone 10/17
A Moral Challenge to Economists, Rev. Dr. Wm. Barber, INET 1/17
Economic growth in the United States: A tale of two countries, Saez, Piketti, Zucman 12/16
Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race, Parramore INET 10/16
Remarkable Admission On Fiscal Policy [paper by CEA head, coming back to Keynes], 10/16
$13 trillion lost last year because of war, Tharoor, Wash. Post 5/16
Top 10 Charts of 2015, EPI 12/15
Beyond GDP: Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations
Why Liberal Economists Dish Out Despair, Friedman INET, 4/16
Making America Great Again The Case for the Mixed Economy, Hacker & Pierson, Foreign Affairs, 3/16
Top CEOs Make 300 Times More than Typical Workers: Pay Growth Surpasses Stock Gains and Wage Growth of Top 0.1 Percent, Mishel & Davis, EPI 6/15
Labor in the 21st Century, Lazonick SSRN 2/15
How To Use Economics & Not Be Used by Economists (1 of 6) Chang
Inversion: ‘Competitiveness’ Has Nothing to Do With It, Kleinbard 8/14
Employment Impact of War, Costs of War, Brown Univ.
Kapital for the Twenty-First Century, Galbraith on Piketty
Unmaking Global Capitalism, Gindin, Jacobin 6/14
Lost Opportunity, Goldberg, 8/14
The CBPP Full Employment Project, Bernstein 4/14
Why the Federal Reserve Needs an Overhaul, Greider, 3/14
Exit Keynes the Friedmanite, Enter Minsky’s Keynes, Barbera, Levy Instit. 9/13
How the Fed Can Jumpstart the Real Economy, Greider, 8/13
Debt Relief and the Fed’s Money-creation Power, Greider, Levy 8/13
A Much-Maligned Engine of Innovation, M. Wolf, FT 8/13
Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940, Nelson, INET 12/12
Federal Debt: Who Ran Up the Bill? Who’ll Pay It?, Zaccone 6/12
The Entrepreneurial State, M. Mazzucato, Demos 2011
Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent & Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America, Callahan & Cha, Demos
350 Economists Say: Jobs Not Austerity 11/12
The Servant Economy, Jeff Faux
From Here to Full Employment, Darity 1/12
The Political Economy of Full Employment, Michael Kalecki, 1943
A U.S. Financial Transaction Tax: How Wall Street can Pay for Its Mess, Pollin
The Corporate Tax Myth, CNN Money, 2/12
Back To Full Employment, Boston Review, J/F 2011
US Infrastructure Report Card: “D” Ritholtz, 9/10
Who Ate the Dessert? Deficit mania ignores growth of income gap, deMause Extra! 6/10
Global Innovation and Jobs, M. Mandel 4/09
U.S. Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond: Conference papers
In Defense of Deficits, J.K.Galbraith, the Nation, 3/10
Federal War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays , Ross, PR 12/09
Why Capitalism Fails The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again, Boston Globe, 9/13/09
Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances [the world according to Citigroup] R. Frank, WSJ, 1/07
Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency,” Yale Rev, 1933
Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator: projected rising budget deficits mostly from skyrocketing health care costs. CEPR 8/09
Power Problem [finance and the business press], Starkman, CJR M/J/09
The worst downturn since the Great Depression, Mishel & Shierholz EPI 6/09
No Return to Normal: Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think, J. Galbraith, 3/09
Tools for a New Economy: Proposals for a financial regulatory system, Pollin, 3/09
Baseline Scenario; Financial Crisis for Beginners
(Very) short reading list: unemployment in the 1930s
Financial Implosion and Stagnation: Back to the Real Economy, Foster & Magdoff, 12/08
Today’s Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective, Global Labor Strats, 11/24/08
Attracting Undocumented Immigrants: The Perverse Effects of US Border Enforcement, Kaufman, 11/08
Confidence Trick, J. Miller, $ & Sense, 10/08; ongoing coverage, ibid.
How Some Arcane Wall Street Financial Instruments Magnified Economic Crisis
Take a Walk on the Supply Side: Tax Cuts on Profits, Savings, and the Wealthy Fail to Spur Economic Growth, Ettlinger, 9/08
Wall Street crisis is culmination of 28 years of deregulation, Lightman, 9/15/08
Companies Tap Pension Plans To Fund Executive Benefits, Schultz & Francis, WSJ, 8/4/08
The Capture of Keynesianism, Palley, 4/08
Political Aspects of Full Employment, Michal Kalecki 1943