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Working Papers

2008

1. Household Saving, Class Identitiy, and Conspicuous Consumption
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Issues (2009)
2. Unemployment exacts a high cost to its victims, not only in lost income, but also in terms of quality of life (insecurity, depression, abandoned families, divorce, suicide, poorer health). It also exacts a high cost to society in terms of lost output, foregone tax revenue, depreciating human capital, and increased costs of welfare, crime, and health care. Yet modern wealthy societies have, principally for the sake of price stability and to avoid the budget costs of a full remedy, chosen to tolerate a substantial level of permanent unemployment. This article explores the moral conditions of this social choice and its rationality in terms of social welfare. It makes and develops support for two claims: society’s tolerance of involuntary unemployment is morally wrong, and it is socially and economically irrational. It concludes that government should guarantee employment by serving as employer of last resort and where appropriate provide for retraining
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2009

1. Household Saving, Class Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption
   Journal of Economic Issues, 2009, XLIII, (1), 89-114
   See also Working Paper (2008)

2005

2. Did US labor's post-World War II successes lead to its subsequent woes?
   International Journal of Social Economics, 2005, 32, (10), 899-915

2003

3. The Scope and Promising Future of Social Economics
   Review of Social Economy, 2003, 61, (4), 425-445 View citations

2001

4. Creative destruction and labor's options
   Forum for Social Economics, 2001, 30, (2), 51-76

1987

5. An economic response to the threat of nuclear war
   Forum for Social Economics, 1987, 17, (1), 43-58

1986

6. Keynesian economics and Economists’ views on the state
   Forum for Social Economics, 1986, 16, (3), 1-15
7. The methodology of W. Arthur Lewis's development economics: Economics as pedagogy
   World Development, 1986, 14, (2), 165-180

1984

8. From Capital-Labor Strife to Community
   Review of Social Economy, 1984, 42, (3), 369-75

1979

9. Rereading Marx for the Non-Marxist Economist: On the Scope and Method of Scientific Economics
   Review of Social Economy, 1979, 37, (3), 371-87

1978

10. The Naturalistic Turn of Orthodox Economics: A Study of Methodological Misunderstanding
    Review of Social Economy, 1978, 36, (3), 263-84