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2005, Volume 48, Issue 2
- 5-6 Robert Heilbroner, 1919-2005
by Mike Sharpe - 7-22 The False Charms of Social Security Privatization
by Alicia Munnell - 23-47 DISTURBING ECONOMIC MYSTERIES: The Causes of the "Job Loss" Recovery
by L. Josh Bivens & Christian Weller - 48-66 DISTURBING ECONOMIC MYSTERIES : Is Federal Reserve Policy Working?
by Philip Arestis & John McCombie - 67-89 The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism
by Stanislav Menshikov - 90-112 John Kenneth Galbraith and the Multinational Corporation
by Stephen Dunn - 113-132 Immigration and the U.S. Economy
by Robert J. Blendon & Stephen R. Pelletier & Mollyann Brodie & John M. Benson & Elizabeth C. Hamel & Elizabeth Raleigh & Marcus D. Rosenbaum & Drew E. Altman - 133-136 REVIEW: America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. BY GAR ALPEROVITZ. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley. Cloth, $24.95. 336 pages
by Robin Blackburn
2005, Volume 48, Issue 1
- 3-4 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-28 Beyond Unemployment
by David Howell - 29-51 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR. BUSH : The Budget Arithmetic Test
by Lee Price & Max Sawicky - 52-75 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR. BUSH : The Bush Agenda
by Anwar Shaikh & Darrick Hamilton & Jeff Madrick - 76-93 States' Responses to the Budget Shortfalls of 2001-2004
by Laura Kalambokidis & Andrew Reschovsky - 94-103 The Long-Run Consequences of Trade and Outsourcing
by David Colander - 104-117 The Empty Legacy of the Corporate Scandals
by David Skeel - 118-124 REVIEW : The State of Working America. BY LAWRENCE MISHEL, JARED BERNSTEIN, AND SYLVIA ALLEGRETTO. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. 512 pp
by Stephen Rose
2004, Volume 47, Issue 6
- 3-4 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-45 A Debate on the Deficit
by Per Gunnar Berglund & Matias Vernengo - 46-68 The Rise in Job Displacement, 1991-2004
by John Schmitt - 69-81 Education, Families, and Workplace Policies
by Thomas Kochan - 82-97 Why Won't the European Central Bank Ease?
by Robert Dunn Jr. - 98-108 Korea, the United States, and the Global Marketplace
by Murray Weidenbaum - 109-116 The Challenge of Taxing Business in Outer Space
by Diane Riordan - 117-119 REVIEW : The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America. By John Sperling with Suzanne Helburn, Samuel George, John Morris, and Carl Hunt. Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press, 2004. Paperback, $39.95. 296 pages
by Heidi Hartmann
2004, Volume 47, Issue 5
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by The Editors - 6-29 The War on Poverty Forty Years On
by Stephanie Bell & L. Randall Wray & L. Randall Wray - 30-50 The Long-Term Gender Gap
by Stephen Rose & Heidi Hartmann & Heidi Hartmann - 51-55 Rising Inequality Not a Surge at the Top
by Lane Kenworthy - 56-68 Cities That Pass Living-Wage Ordinances
by Oren Levin-Waldman - 69-85 Justice and the Global Economy
by Ethan Kapstein - 86-103 The Viability of Economic Shock Therapy in Iraq
by Robert Looney - 104-115 Structuralist Economics: Challenge to the Mainstream
by Lance Taylor - 116-122 Review
by The Editors
2004, Volume 47, Issue 4
- 6-16 Social Spending and Economic Growth
by Peter Lindert - 17-40 What Caused the Massachusetts Fiscal Crisis?
by Elissa Braunstein - 41-61 The Rise of the Free Trade Agreement
by Greg Mastel - 62-77 Central Asia on the Edge of Globalization
by Martin Spechler - 78-90 Distorting Adam Smith on Trade
by Michael Meeropol - 91-112 The Great Pension Gap
by Robin Blackburn - 113-123 REVIEW : The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
by Robert Pollin
2004, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-26 How Americans View Their Lives : An Annual Survey
by Robert Blendon & John Benson - 27-41 The Truth About Social Security and Medicare
by Henry Aaron - 42-72 Macro Policy Lessons from the Recent Recession
by Christian Weller & Josh Bivens & Max Sawicky - 73-93 Building Democracy on Quicksand : Altruism, Empire, and the United States
by Jean-Paul Faguet - 94-112 Oil and the Case of Iraq
by Thomas Palley - 113-119 REVIEW: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Greg Anrig Jr.
2004, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-38 WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse
by Gavin Wright & Jesse Czelusta - 39-52 WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: U.S. Sclerosis?
by Ronald Schettkat - 53-69 WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: To Whom Are Corporate Executives Accountable?
by James Herendeen - 70-80 The Slippery Art of Measuring Living Standards: Interview with Robert J. Gordon
by Robert J. Gordon - 81-89 The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith
by Richard Parker - 90-108 How Ignoring Fluctuations in Lifetime Earnings Affects Social Security
by Thomas Hungerford - 109-114 REVIEW: How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science
by George C. Lodge
2004, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 3-4 Letter From The Editor
by The Editors - 5-52 Asset Poverty in the United States, 1984-1999
by Asena Caner & Edward Wolff - 53-63 AT HOME The Politics of Democracy
by Jay Mandle - 64-77 ABROAD The American Economic Empire
by Robert Hunter Wade - 78-85 How Third World Contracting Is Transformed into First World Productivity
by M.J. Gordon - 86-106 U.S. Steelmakers in Continuing Crisis
by Robert Carbaugh & John Olienyk & John Olienyk
2003, Volume 46, Issue 6
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by The Editors - 6-15 The Future for Trade
by Ha-Joon Chang - 16-31 After Cancún: An Optimistic Case
by Thomas Palley - 32-61 The Weakness in Strong Intellectual Property Rights
by Michael Perelman - 62-109 Securing America's Future
by Joel Popkin & Kathryn Kobe - 110-130 Revolutionizing French Economics
by Richard McIntyre
2003, Volume 46, Issue 5
- 3-4 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-14 The Alarming State of the Job Market
by The Editors - 15-36 Why the Dollar Needs to Fall Further
by Robert Blecker - 37-58 A Season of Hope in Argentina
by Michael Cohen - 59-75 What's Next for Brazil After Neoliberalism?
by Matias Vernengo - 76-89 A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises
by Dean Baker - 90-99 Subsidies for Childbearing and Fertility Rates
by Robert Dunn Jr - 100-112 Valuing Public Goods
by Philip Graves - 113-124 Reviews
by The Editors
2003, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-20 Common Cultures
by Amartya Sen - 21-35 The 401(k) Rip-Off
by Edward Wolff - 36-53 Capital and Control: Lessons from Malaysia
by Rawi Abdelal & Laura Alfaro - 54-70 Free Trade, or Countervailing Power for the Americas
by Edwin Reubens - 71-105 Evaluation of a Proposal to Reinstate the New York Stock Transfer Tax
by Robert Pollin & James Heintz - 106-109 Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron. By Robert Bryce, with a foreword by Molly Ivins
by Randall Dodd - 110-118 The Antisweatshop Movement: A Letter and a Response
by Linda Y. C. Lim & John Miller
2003, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 6-28 On the Russian Privatization Debate
by David Ellerman - 29-52 What an Economic Adviser Can Do When He Disagrees with the President
by Jeffrey Frankel - 53-72 Asset Price Bubbles and the Case for Asset-Based Reserve Requirements
by Thomas Palley - 73-88 Does Sex and the City Predict the Future of Marriage?
by Roderick Duncan - 89-107 Unemployment Insurance and Voluntary Quits
by Rebecca Smith & Rick McHugh & Andrew Stettner - 108-111 The Use and Abuse of Adam Smith
by Gerald Houseman - 112-123 Adam Smith and the Contradictions of the Free Market
by Peter Nolan - 124-134 Financial Markets and Risk: Solving Social Problems - Interview with Robert Shiller
by The Editors
2003, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by The Editors - 6-21 Is Ethics Good Business? Interview with Lynn Sharp Paine
by The Editors - 22-40 Reexamining the Law-and-Economics Theory of Corporate Governance
by William Black - 41-58 Trade Still Matters
by Senator Ernest Hollings & Eamonn Fingleton - 59-79 Does Manufacturing Matter?
by Adam Hersh & Christian Weller - 80-96 Making the Euro Work
by Philip Arestis & Malcolm Sawyer - 97-110 EU Budget Deficits Widen Again
by Theodore Pelagidis - 111-124 Underfunding Homeland Security
by David Obey - 125-129 Review
by The Editors
2003, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 3-4 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-14 More Tax Cuts? The Truth About Taxes and Economic Growth
by The Editors - 15-37 Biotechnology and Government Funding
by Michael Lawlor - 38-54 The Health-Care Paradox
by Walter Cadette - 55-78 The Perfect Fiscal Storm
by L. Randall Wray - 79-92 The Failure to Reform the Workday
by Eileen Appelbaum & Lonnie Golden - 93-122 Why Economists Are Wrong About Sweatshops and the Antisweatshop Movement
by John Miller - 123-129 The Case Against Prefunding Social Security with Equities
by Thomas Palley
2002, Volume 45, Issue 6
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-20 On Making Economics Realistic
by The Editors - 21-44 Why There Is Chronic Excess Capacity
by James Crotty - 45-69 The Feminist Challenge to Economics
by Ann Mari May - 70-92 Destabilizing an Unstable Economy
by Charles Whalen & Jeffrey Wenger - 93-119 The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble
by Dean Baker
2002, Volume 45, Issue 5
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-20 Too Much Wealth, Too Little Democracy: Interview with Kevin Phillips
by The Editors - 21-62 Toward Free and Fair Trade: A Global Public Good Perspective
by Ronald Mendoza & Chandrika Bahadur - 63-97 Kicking Away the Ladder: An Unofficial History of Capitalism, Especially in Britain and the United States
by Ha-Joon Chang - 98-111 The Misguided Attractions of Foreign Exchange Controls
by Robert Dunn Jr - 112-124 On Soros: Are Special Drawing Rights the Deus ex Machina of the World Economy?
by Robert Hunter Wade
2002, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-19 The Boom, the Bubble, and the Future
by The Editors - 20-40 Angus Maddison Rewrites Economic History Again
by Andrew Sharpe - 41-59 Argentina: A Decade of the Convertibility Regime
by Roberto Frenkel - 60-70 Still Not Enough Aid
by Isaac Shapiro, David Weiner - 71-87 The Nation-State Is Not Losing Its Power to Tax
by Robert Thomas Kudrle - 88-108 Why Tuition Costs Are Rising So Quickly
by Robert Martin - 109-121 University Endowment Returns Are Underspent
by Donald Frey - 122-128 Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly?
by Dean Baker - 129-131 A Response to Baker
by Michael Mandel - 132-135 Review
by The Editors
2002, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 3-4 Letter From the Editor
by The Editors - 5-18 Fighting Terrorism: What Economics Can Tell Us
by The Editors - 19-43 Information Technology and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
by Sebastian Edwards - 44-57 Austerity or Bust? Argentina's Options for Economic Revival
by Christian Weller - 58-82 Where Credit Is Due: Allocating Credit to Advance Environmental Goals
by Jane D'Arista, James Boyce - 83-99 The Euro: Market Failure or Central Bank Failure?
by Jörg Bibow - 100-111 Poverty, Jobs, and Subsidized Employment
by Timothy Bartik - 112-116 Prefunding Is Still the Answer
by Thomas Michl - 117-127 Review
by The Editors
2002, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-26 The Resurrection of Risk
by Anirvan Banerji - 27-51 The Case for a Severe Recession
by Wynne Godley, Alex Izurieta - 52-66 Fighting Recession: Fiscal Assistance for State and Local Governments
by Max Sawicky - 67-76 Untangling Enron: The Reforms We Need
by The Editors - 77-96 The Stiglitz Contribution
by Ha-Joon Chang - 97-118 Social Security: Prefunding Is Not the Answer!
by Thomas Palley - 119-121 Review
by The Editors
2002, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 6-46 Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of America's Children
by Guy Stevens - 47-74 Regulating Noncompliance to Labor Standards: New Tools for an Old Problem
by David Weil - 75-87 Don't Raise the Retirement Age
by Christian Weller - 88-103 The Failure of Economic Development: Interview with William Easterly
by The Editors - 104-116 Financial Bailout of September 11: Rapid Response
by Patrice Flynn - 117-121 Is the New Economy Wearing Out?
by Dean Baker - 122-125 Review
by The Editors
2001, Volume 44, Issue 6
- 3-4 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 5-12 The Meaning of a War Economy
by James K. Galbraith - 13-27 The Case Against Budget Surpluses
by Thomas Palley - 28-44 Argentina: A Poster Child for the Failure of Liberalized Policies?
by Lance Taylor - 45-58 The Routes to Crisis Contagion
by Robert Dunn Jr - 59-77 In Economic Policy, How Much Does It Matter Which Party Governs?
by Robert Blendon & John Benson & Mollyann Brodie & Drew Altman & Kathleen Weldon - 78-92 Why We Should Fund Social Security Permanently
by Thomas Michl - 93-103 The Crisis in Economic History
by Peter Coclanis, David Carlton - 104-112 The Economic Consequences of Sweden's Welfare State
by Walter Korpi - 113-119 Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery
by The Editors
2001, Volume 44, Issue 5
- 3-5 Letter from the Editor
by The Editors - 6-18 Time for a Living Wage
by The Editors - 19-29 The End of Full-Employment and Expansionist Policies?
by Vicente Navarro - 30-66 Confronting the Youth Population Boom
by Andrew Sum & Neeta Fogg & Garth Mangum - 67-75 Capital and Revenge: The IMF and Ethiopia
by Robert Hunter Wade - 76-87 What Ails Markets in Europe?
by Jan Toporowski - 88-94 Can Economic Growth Save Social Security?
by Moshe Adler - 95-101 They Have the World on a Queue
by Robert Piron - 102-120 The Euro and Political Credibility in Germany
by Klaus Zimmermann, Tobias Just - 121-122 Review
by The Editors
2001, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 3-4 Letter from the Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-13 What Happened to the Good Society?
by The Editors - 14-37 Lessons from Eastern Europe's Voucher Privatization
by David Ellerman - 38-58 Swedish Economic Growth
by Magnus Henrekson - 59-66 A Case for Free Trade
by Bernard Wasow - 67-81 Are Gasoline Taxes in Britain Too High?
by Ian Parry - 82-107 The Job-Generation Issue and Its Impact on Health Insurance Policy
by David Hirschberg - 108-117 Macroeconomic Implications of Institutional Equity Ownership
by William Van Lear - 118-121 by Barbara Bergmann
by Margaret Coleman
2001, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 3-5 Letter From The Editor
by The Editors - 6-16 Keynesianism Again
by The Editors - 17-42 Reviving Fiscal Policy
by Laurence Seidman - 43-60 And Now for Something Completely Different
by Robert Cherry, Max Sawicky - 61-69 Relief for Tax Filers
by Kathleen Krier, Derek Mitchell - 70-89 Destabilizing Speculation and the Case for an International Currency Transactions Tax
by Thomas Palley - 90-96 Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes?
by Dean Baker - 97-114 Contrary Opinion: The Importance of the Elderly
by Jay Levy - 115-121 , by Bob Woodward
by Randall Dodd
2001, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 3-4 Letter From The Editor
by Jeff Madrick - 5-13 The Future of the European Union:
by The Editors