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Working Papers

2013

1. Government Is Whose Problem?
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
2. Why Marx Still Matters
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics

2012

3. 9/11, Foreign Threats, Political Legitimacy, and Democratic Social Institutions
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
4. The Growth Trap, Ecological Devastation, and the Promise of Guaranteed Employment
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Challenge (2013)
5. Wage Stagnation, Rising Inequality and the Financial Crisis of 2008
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics

2011

6. Degraded Work, Declining Community, Rising Inequality, and the Transformation of the Protestant Ethic in America: 1870-1930
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
7. Rising Inequality and the Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
   Also in Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (2)

2010

8. Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power and Environmental Devastation
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Issues (2011)

2009

9. Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress and Epidemic Obesity
   Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
10. Increasing Inequality, Status Insecurity, Ideology, and the Financial Crisis of 2008
    Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics
11. Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time
    Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2011)
12. On Human Behavior, Human Fulfillment, and the Nature of the Workplace
    Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics

2008

13. Household Saving, Class Identitiy, and Conspicuous Consumption
    Working Papers, American University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
14. 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

2013

1. The Growth Trap, Ecological Devastation, and the Promise of Guaranteed Employment
   Challenge, 2013, 56, (2), 53-78
   See also Working Paper (2012)

2011

2. Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power, and Environmental Devastation
   Journal of Economic Issues, 2011, 45, (4), 877-900 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2010)
3. Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All of the Time
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2011, 70, (4), 974-1013 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2009)

2010

4. Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic Obesity
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69, (3), 936-982
5. The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling
   Review of Social Economy, 2010, 68, (1), 35-67 View citations (1)

2005

6. 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

7. The Scope and Promising Future of Social Economics
   Review of Social Economy, 2003, 61, (4), 425-445 View citations (5)

2001

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

1987

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

1986

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