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November 2023, Volume 66, Issue 5-6
- 123-131 “Not a Thing” Seven Legal Reasons the Federal “Debt Ceiling” is Null & Void
by Robert Hockett - 132-150 Institutions as Instruments of Social Welfare
by Suyog Dandekar - 151-168 John Maynard Keynes Narrates the Great Depression: His Reports to the Philips Electronics Firm
by Robert W. Dimand & Bradley W. Bateman - 169-187 Fiscal Stimulus Caused Only 1% of the 8% Rise in U.S. Inflation
by Laurence Seidman
July 2023, Volume 66, Issue 3-4
- () Notice of duplicate publication: “Globalization and the Labor Market: An Economic Approach.”
by The Editors - 59-68 Viability of the Political System: A Neglected Issue in Public Finance
by John Komlos - 69-78 Universal Deposit Insurance
by Robert Hockett - 79-100 Artificial Intelligence, New Human Technologies, and the Future of Mankind
by Roland Benedikter - 101-116 Effect of Leadership, Globalization, Employee Engagement, Emotional Intelligence and Technology on Organizational Change in Tigray, Ethiopia
by Aregawi Zeferu Hadush & M.S.R. Mariyappan - 117-122 Conversations with Gyorgy Ligeti
by Robert H. Wade
March 2023, Volume 66, Issue 1-2
- 1-22 Ten Books Every ECON Student Should Read
by Junaid B. Jahangir - 23-26 Regaining Control of the National Security Establishment
by Robert Repetto - 27-48 Money Growth and Inflation: A Wavelet Analysis for a Monetization Approach to COVID 19
by Antonio Focacci - 49-58 The True Problem in America: A Lack of People
by Louis Uchitelle
November 2022, Volume 65, Issue 5-6
- 151-159 Big Oil’s Profits and Inflation: Winners and Losers
by Isabella M. Weber - 160-167 The Future of European SMEs: Seven Strategic Axes for the Re-Globalization Phase
by Roland Benedikter - 168-175 An Economic Theory about the Labor Market in the Age of Globalization
by Ranisom S. Martins - 176-198 Special Drawing Rights: The Right Tool to Use to Respond to the Pandemic and Other Challenges
by Kevin Cashman & Andrés Arauz & Lara Merling - 199-204 Adam Smith on the Late Resolution of the Quakers of Pennsylvania
by Robert W. Dimand
July 2022, Volume 65, Issue 3-4
- 91-92 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 93-105 Income Inequality, Cause and Cure
by B. N. Kausik - 106-112 The Purpose of Constitutional Political Economy
by Franklin Obeng-Odoom - 113-124 Chile’s New Start
by Roland Benedikter & Miguel Zlosilo - 125-128 Modern Money Theory in the Tropics: A Reply to Agustin Mario
by Matías Vernengo & Esteban Pérez Caldentey - 129-138 Remembering Assar Lindbeck
by Thorvaldur Gylfason - 139-145 The New Meaning of a War Economy and the Effects of Improved Planning
by Salvatore Moccia & Igor Tomic - 146-149 Reviewed Work: One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Louis Uchitelle
March 2022, Volume 65, Issue 1-2
- 1-2 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 3-11 Resource Dearth: Challenges to Development in the American South
by David L. Carlton & Peter A. Coclanis - 12-33 International Liberalization: Its Implications for Countries’ Social Wellbeing
by Joaquim Vergés-Jaime - 34-48 Using ESOPs to Democratize Labor-Based Platforms
by Tej Gonza & David Ellerman - 49-58 Reflections on the Volcker Rule: Innovations in the Financial Services Industry and Fixing Too Big to Succeed
by Koushik Ghosh & Yurim Lee - 59-75 Introducing Future Studies to ECON 101 Students
by Junaid B. Jahangir - 76-89 Awakening from the Chinese Dream
by Arne Jon Isachsen & Thorvaldur Gylfason
November 2021, Volume 64, Issue 5-6
- 377-378 Summary of the Findings of a Current Survey the Financial Health of Americans
by Jeff Madrick - 379-387 Income Differences in Serious Financial Burdens Facing U.S. Households during Covid-19
by Mary G. Findling & Robert J. Blendon & John M. Benson - 388-393 The New Working Class: Education, Economics and Politics
by Howard Sherman & Paul Sherman - 394-405 The Case for a Global Marshall Plan
by James A. Yunker - 406-412 Restitution to Africa: Unjust Enrichment and Damages from Imperial, Colonial, and Post Colonial Abuse of Dominance
by Richard F. America - 413-424 Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Emerging Markets: The Currency Substitution Challenge
by Sebastian Edwards - 425-432 Testing for the Virus in the First Year of COVID-19: A Primer and a Plea for the Economists
by Dan Fraenkel - 433-452 Amplifying Heterodox Economics With Video Clips
by Junaid B. Jahangir - 453-459 Review of Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy
by Christopher Mackin - 460-463 Reviewed Work: Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Max Ehrenfreund
July 2021, Volume 64, Issue 4
- 279-279 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 280-291 The Once and Future Fed – and Treasury
by Robert Hockett - 292-302 Stock Market Booms and Labor Bargaining Power
by William Van Lear - 303-313 Proto-Fascism Unleashed: How the Republican Party Sold Its Soul and Now Threatens Democracy
by Thomas Palley - 314-342 A Productivity-Focused Growth Policy Model
by Gregory Tassey - 343-360 The Industrial Reserve Army of Labor: Is It Time to Incorporate the Concept into Current Political Economy?
by Carl Mosk - 361-376 MMT’s policy prescriptions in Small and Open Economies: Addressing some Controversies
by Agustín Mario
May 2021, Volume 64, Issue 3
- 181-181 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 182-219 How to Change Economics 101
by John Komlos - 220-228 U.S. Trade and Friedrich List
by John Meszaros - 229-242 Income or Wealth: What Did the 2020 Stimulus Mean for People’s Happiness and Why It Matters?
by Michael Madowitz & Christian E. Weller - 243-278 Full Employment, as the Hearth of the Cultural Economics of Orban
by Robert Skidelsky & Daniel Olah
March 2021, Volume 64, Issue 2
- 87-88 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 89-99 Republican Death Rattle
by Thomas E. Patterson - 100-116 Balanced Keynesianism and Its Application to Cutting the Trade Deficits
by Dr. Vladimir A. Masch - 117-131 Overcoming the Challenge of Communicating the Concept and Science of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 to Non-Experts
by Ikpe Justice Akpan & Obianuju Genevieve Aguolu & Izuchukwu C. Ezeume - 132-137 The Role of Technical Colleges in the Future of Cooperative Enterprise
by Richard Davis - 138-155 The New Macroeconomic Matrix and the Great Brazilian Recession
by Cleomar Gomes da Silva & Albert Fishlow - 156-171 The Misinterpretation of Productivity Measures
by Joaquim Vergés-Jaime - 172-180 The Future of Democracy in Chile
by Roland Benedikter & Carlos Cruz Infante & Miguel Zlosilo
January 2021, Volume 64, Issue 1
- 1-2 Letter From the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 3-10 Serious Financial Burdens Facing U.S. Households with Employment Loss During COVID-19
by Mary G. Findling & Robert J. Blendon & John M. Benson - 11-21 National Investment in National Renewal—Three Whys and Three Hows
by Robert Hockett - 22-35 The Trump Depression
by Howard J. Sherman & Paul D. Sherman - 36-50 The Free Market Fallacy
by David J. Lyon - 51-74 The Actual U.S. Unemployment Rate in 2019 Was Twice the Official Rate, and the Phillips Curve
by John Komlos - 75-86 Can Machines Create Art?
by Roland Benedikter
November 2020, Volume 63, Issue 6
- () Retracted Article: Why Did Trade Liberalization Work for East Asia but Fail in Latin America?
by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira - () Statement of Retraction
by The Editors - 309-310 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 311-318 Resilient Financial Systems Can Soften the Next Global Financial Crisis
by William Hynes & Benjamin D. Trump & Patrick Love & Alan Kirman & Stephanie E. Galaitsi & Gabriela Ramos & Igor Linkov - 319-331 What Happened in Bolivia’s 2019 Vote Count?
by Guillaume Long & David Rosnick & Cavan Kharrazian & Kevin Cashman - 332-348 Modern Money Theory (MMT) in the Tropics: Functional Finance in Developing Countries
by Matías Vernengo & Esteban Pérez Caldentey - 349-364 Challenges Faced by Pandemic Covid 19 Crisis: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia
by Musrrat Parveen - 365-377 The Challenges Faced by Parents and Children From Divorce
by Ikpe Justice Akpan & Izuchukwu C. Ezeume - 378-381 A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
by Steven Pressman
September 2020, Volume 63, Issue 5
- 243-244 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 245-263 The American Mega-Crisis: COVID-19 and Beyond
by Bruce Parrott - 264-274 The Business of Changing Minds: Returning the Collective Agency of Government to Its Proper Economic Role
by Daniel Alpert - 275-285 Productive Public–Private Partnering in Crisis and Beyond
by Robert Hockett - 286-299 What You Really Need to Know about the SDR and How to Make it Work for Multilateral Financing of Developing Countries
by Barry Herman - 300-304 A Needed Appendectomy and a Modest Social Security Proposal
by Thomas L. Hungerford - 305-308 A Review of A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
by Steven Pressman
July 2020, Volume 63, Issue 4
- 183-183 Letter from the Editor
by Madrick Jeffrey - 184-200 Reversing Financialization and Restoring Government
by John M. Balder - 201-218 The Retirement Savings Penalty Borne by Women
by Christian E. Weller & Michele E. Tolson - 219-233 The Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal: The Issue is the Issue, after All
by Peter Dorman - 234-238 Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Public Policy and Corporate Governance Considerations
by Dick May & Chris Mackin - 239-242 The End of Ideology, and the Choice for a Democratic Nominee for President
by Mildred Rein
May 2020, Volume 63, Issue 3
- 113-113 Letter
by Jeffrey Madrick - 114-132 A New Theoretical Framework: New Developmentalism
by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira - 133-155 Fallacies of Corporate Analysis
by David Ellerman - 156-164 The Impact of Income Inequality on Americans’ Experiences
by Mary G. Findling & Robert J. Blendon & John M. Benson - 165-176 The Dawn of Digitized Religion: A New Business Model—Or More?
by Roland Benedikter - 177-181 Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development
by Richard Falk
March 2020, Volume 63, Issue 2
- 59-59 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 60-76 The True State of the U.S. Economy
by Michael McCormack & Amanda Novello - 77-89 Globalism and Inequality Are the Real Threats to Our Democracy
by Oren M. Levin-Waldman - 90-97 Across-the-Board Tax Cuts Generate Inequality
by John Komlos - 98-106 Africa’s Growth Prospects are Good
by Thorvaldur Gylfason - 107-112 The Political Economy of Central Banking: Contested Control and the Power of Finance, Selected Essays of Gerald Epstein
by Edwin Dickens
January 2020, Volume 63, Issue 1
- 1-1 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 2-13 The MMT Free Lunch Mirage Can Lead to a Perverse Outcome
by Gerald Epstein - 14-20 Allocating New Educational Dollars
by Amitai Etzioni - 21-39 Libra and Facebook’s Money Illusion
by Ramaa Vasudevan - 40-51 Can America Truly Turn Socialist?
by Nina Eichacker - 52-57 Not His Kind of Town
by Peter A. Coclanis
November 2019, Volume 62, Issue 6
- 375-376 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 377-397 Encouraging Inclusive Growth: The Employee Equity Loan Act
by Richard C. May & Robert C. Hockett & Christopher Mackin - 398-415 MMT and Two Paths to Big Deficits
by L. Randall Wray - 416-426 Africa’s Future: Guarding the Globe
by Roland Benedikter & William Mensa Tsedze - 427-452 Income Inequality and Market Fragility: A Model and Some Empirics in the Political Economy of Finance, Part II
by Robert Hockett & Daniel Dillon - 453-456 Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present and Future of American Labor
by Louis Uchitelle
September 2019, Volume 62, Issue 5
- 279-280 Letter From the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 281-298 Debunking the Public Debt and Deficit Rhetoric
by Eric Tymoigne - 299-321 Punishing Civilians: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
by Mark Weisbrot & Jeffrey Sachs - 322-353 Suicide Terrorism: A Trope of Our Time
by Roland Benedikter - 354-374 Income Inequality and Market Fragility: Some Empirics in the Political Economy of Finance, Part I
by Robert Hockett & Daniel Dillon
July 2019, Volume 62, Issue 4
- 217-218 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 219-241 Nonstandard Work and Older Americans, 2005–2017
by Eileen Appelbaum & Arne Kalleberg & Hye Jin Rho - 242-252 What the Fed Has Forgotten: The Inflation Cycle Is Not the Business Cycle
by Anirvan Banerji & Lakshman Achuthan - 253-272 The Federal Job Guarantee: Prevention, Not Just a Cure
by Pavlina R. Tcherneva - 273-277 Why Did Trade Liberalization Work for East Asia but Fail in Latin America?
by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
May 2019, Volume 62, Issue 3
- 163-164 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 165-176 The Urgency of Global Economic Reform
by Fred Block - 177-186 Labor Supply Imbalances in the Aftermath of the Great Recession: Age, Gender, and Labor Force Participation
by Philip S. Heap & Robert N. Horn - 187-199 Brazilian Monetary and Fiscal Policies from 2011 to 2017: Conventions and Crisis
by Philip Arestis & Fernando Ferrari Filho & Marco Flávio Resende & Fábio Bittes Terra - 200-216 Republican Homeowning
by Robert Hockett
March 2019, Volume 62, Issue 2
- 99-100 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 101-112 Jobs for All: Reclaiming the Right to Work
by Charles J. Whalen - 113-127 Open Labor Market Operations
by Robert Hockett - 128-143 Inequality and Stagnation by Policy Design: Mainstream Denialism and Its Dangerous Political Consequences
by Thomas Palley - 144-162 Trump’s America First Program: A Flawed Approach
by Bob Carbaugh
January 2019, Volume 62, Issue 1
- 1-2 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 3-20 What Workers Need the First Day on the Job
by Celine McNicholas & Samantha Sanders & Heidi Shierholz - 21-30 11 Ways American Workers Are Falling Behind the Rest of the World
by Amanda Novello & Jeff Madrick - 31-48 Ten Years On: What Have We Learned? What Have We Done? What Must We Do?
by Robert Hockett - 49-66 The Fracturing of Globalization: Implications of Economic Resentments and Geopolitical Contradictions
by Thomas I. Palley - 67-76 Health Care: The Causes and Consequences of Slower-Growing Costs
by Merrill Goozner - 77-95 The Future of the Human Mind: Techno-Anthropological Hybridization?
by Roland Benedikter & Karim Fathi - 96-97 The Depredations of Christopher Columbus
by Mike Sharpe
March 2018, Volume 61, Issue 2
- 107-108 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 109-119 Latest Tax Cuts: History Belies Promise of Growth
by Thomas L. Hungerford - 120-132 Explaining, Restoring Low Productivity Growth in the UK
by Philip Arestis & Patricia Peinado - 133-155 The Inevitability of a Universal Basic Income
by Oren M. Levin-Waldman - 156-182 Rethinking Libertarianism: Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government
by David Ellerman - 183-202 Wealth Inequality More Pronounced Among Asian Americans Than Among Whites
by Christian E. Weller & Jeffrey P. Thompson - 203-209 Genesis of the Monopoly Capital Interpretation of U.S. Economy Dynamics
by Michael Meeropol - 210-211 Steven Pinker and the New Enlightenment
by Mike Sharpe
January 2018, Volume 61, Issue 1
- 1-3 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 4-18 The Republican Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
by Lance Taylor - 19-41 We Can Have a High-Wage America
by Michael McCormack & Jeff Madrick - 42-55 Working Poverty: Low Skills or Low Wages?
by David J. Lyon - 56-67 The Case for Manufacturing Subsidies
by Louis Uchitelle - 68-84 Free Trade Agreements and Offshoring
by William A. Douglas - 85-91 The Pious Predator State: The New Regime in Turkey
by Adem Y. Elveren - 92-103 The Two-Edged Sword of Capitalist Globalization
by Peter Nolan - 104-105 The Rise and Fall of Chester Pennsylvania
by Mike Sharpe
September 2017, Volume 60, Issue 5
- 401-404 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 405-423 A ‘High-Pressure Economy’ Can Boost Productivity
by Josh Bivens - 424-440 How Exceptional Is the U.S. Social Welfare System?
by Thomas L. Hungerford - 441-448 Cultural and Structural Perspectives on Poverty
by Mildred Rein - 449-454 Political Education for a Fairer Economy
by Herbert J. Gans - 455-489 Africa and Europe: Toward a New Beginning
by Roland Benedikter - 490-492 The Science and Politics of Global Warming
by Mike Sharpe
July 2017, Volume 60, Issue 4
- 325-326 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 327-346 Job Collapse on the Road to New Athens
by Amitai Etzioni - 347-367 Politics, Not Economics, Ultimately Drives Inequality
by Jon D. Wisman - 368-374 Trump’s Neocon Neoliberalism Camouflaged with Anti-Globalization Circus
by Thomas Palley - 375-385 The European Union at 60: Why There Is Hope
by Roland Benedikter & Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski - 386-396 Paying for the Trump Wall Boondoggle
by Bob Carbaugh & Toni Sipic - 397-399 Jobs for Factory Workers?
by Mike Sharpe
May 2017, Volume 60, Issue 3
- 225-227 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 228-244 Public Opinion and Trump’s Jobs and Trade Policies
by Robert J. Blendon & Logan S. Casey & John M. Benson - 245-267 The Clear and Present Threat to Social Security and Medicare
by Nancy J. Altman & Eric R. Kingson - 268-278 How to Protect Work and Wages in America
by Andrew Stettner - 279-286 The Natural Rights We Must Protect
by Richard Parker - 287-293 The Century’s Giant: An Obituary of Economist Kenneth Arrow
by Gavin Wright - 294-320 Europe’s Refugee and Migrant Crisis: Economic and Political Ambivalences
by Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski & Roland Benedikter - 321-324 The Future of Humanity
by Mike Sharpe
March 2017, Volume 60, Issue 2
- 101-103 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 104-121 Trumponomics: Should We Just Say “No”?
by Gerald Epstein - 122-140 The Many Consequences of Repealing Obamacare
by Merrill Goozner - 141-170 Financial Transactions Taxes: Potential Revenue and Economic Implications
by Dean Baker - 171-188 On the Labor Theory of Property: Is the Problem Distribution or Predistribution?
by David Ellerman - 189-222 The Greek Crisis: A Gandhian Perspective
by Arvind Ashta & Christine Sinapi - 223-224 The Story of President Donald Strump
by Mike Sharpe
January 2017, Volume 60, Issue 1
- 1-3 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 4-26 Private Debt and Public Debility
by Daniel Alpert & Robert Hockett - 27-39 The “Natural” Interest Rate and Secular Stagnation: Loanable Funds Macro Models Don't Fit Today’s Institutions or Data
by Lance Taylor - 40-50 Building Middle-Class Wealth Through Unions
by Christian E. Weller & David Madland & Alex Rowell - 51-55 Proposals for International Tax Reform: Problem or Opportunity?
by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah - 56-82 Innovative Financing for Infrastructure (and Climate Change): Savings Surpluses for Investment Deficits
by Akbar Noman - 83-97 The Ethics of Offshoring
by William A. Douglas - 98-100 World War II on the Home Front
by Mike Sharpe