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2024-03: Could Diffusion Indexes Have Forecasted the Great Recession?

Gabriel Mathy and Yongchen Zhao

2024-02: The Urgent Need to Delegitimate Laissez-Faire Ideology

Jon Wisman

2024-01: Anti-Scroogenomics: A Keynesian Celebration of Christmas

Gabriel Mathy

2023-07: When Microeconomic Instruction Serves as Ideology

Jon Wisman, Michael Cauvel and Aaron Pacitti

2023-06: Headhunting and Warfare in Austronesia: A Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis

Boris Gershman and Tinatin Mumladze

2023-05: The Industrial Degradation of Workers That Thorstein Veblen Overlooked

Jon Wisman

2023-04: Witchcraft Beliefs and Subjective Well-Being

Boris Gershman

2023-03: Thorstein Veblen, The Meaning of Work, and its Humanization

Jon Wisman

2023-02: Nationalism as a Response to Worker Militancy

Jon Wisman and Nicholas Reksten

2023-01: Multi-mode Trade Policy Retaliation

Robert Feinberg, Kjersti Nes, Kara Reynolds and Aleks Schaefer

2022-07: Structural Change, Elite Capitalism, and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Boris Gershman, Quamrul Ashraf, Francesco Cinnirella, Oded Galor and Erik Hornung

2022-06: Witchcraft Beliefs Around the World: An Exploratory Analysis

Boris Gershman

2022-05: Had Keynes Read More Veblen: The Imperative of a Scientific Theory of Human Behavior

Jon Wisman

2022-04: How the Bourgeoisie's Quest for Status Placed Blame for Poverty on the Poor

Jon Wisman

2022-03: Demand for Protection: The Impact of Increased Populist Rhetoric on Trade Views

Kara Reynolds

2022-02: Costs of Trade Wars: The Distributional Consequence of US Section 301 Tariffs Against China

Kara Reynolds

2022-01: Casualties of Trade Wars

Kara Reynolds and Benjamin Liebman

2021-04: Why We All Must Work

Jon Wisman

2021-03: Why Ideology Exists

Jon Wisman

2021-02: At a Crossroads: The impact of abortion access on future economic outcomes

Kelly Jones

2021-01: Witchcraft Beliefs, Social Relations, and Development

Boris Gershman

2020-02: The Proletarianization of the Professoriate and the Threat to Free Expression, Creativity, and Economic Dynamism

Jon Wisman and Quentin Duroy

2020-01: A Brief Sketch of the Economic Causes of War and Peace

Jon Wisman

2019-07: Reducing Maternal Labor Market Detachment: A Role for Paid Family Leave

Kelly Jones and Britni Wilcher

2019-06: Precautionary Savings and Shock-Coping Behaviors: The Effects of Promoting Mobile Bank Savings on Transactional Sex in Kenya*

Kelly Jones and Erick Gong

2019-05: Is an Academic Career a Luxury Good? Student Debt and the Under-Representation of Minorities

Robert Feinberg

2019-04: Tariff Rate Pass-Through: Buyer Power and Product Differentiation Effects

Ralph Sonenshine and Michael Lifschutz

2019-03: Merger Waves: Are Buyers Following the Herd or Responding to Structural Queues?

Ralph Sonenshine

2019-02: Does a Guaranteed Basic Income Encourage Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Alaska

Robert Feinberg and Daniel Kuehn

2019-01: Are US antidumping cases being crowded out by other forms of protectionism? A natural experiment

Prashant Desai and Robert Feinberg

2018-06: Long-term shifts in demand and distribution in neo-Kaleckian and neo-Goodwinian models

Robert Blecker

2018-05: Privatisation de la Francaise des Jeux

Jon Wisman and Quentin Duroy

2018-04: Marx, the Predisposition to Reject Markets and Private Property, and Attractive Alternatives to Capitalism

Jon Wisman

2018-03: Exploitation, Human Nature, and Social Institutions

Jon Wisman

2018-02: Why has the Great Recession Failed to Produce a New New Deal in the U.S.?

Jon Wisman

2018-01: Guaranteed non-labor income and labor supply: the effect of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend

Robert Feinberg

2017-12: Effect of Utility Deregulation and Mergers on Consumer Welfare

Ralph Sonenshine

2017-10: The Dynamics of Inequality in the Human Story: A Brief Sketch

Jon Wisman

2017-09: Why Has Labor Not Demanded Guaranteed Employment?

Jon Wisman and Michael Cauvel

2017-08: How Do Countries Respond to Antidumping Filings? Dispute Settlement and Retaliatory Antidumping

Robert Feinberg and Kara Reynolds

2017-07: Le Monople d'Etat sur les Jeux d'Argent: De l'Art d'Extroquer

Jon Wisman and Quentin Duroy

2017-06: Politics, Not Economics, Ultimately Drives Inequality

Jon Wisman

2017-05: Guaranteed Employment and Universal Child Care For a New Social Contract

Jon Wisman and Aaron Pacitti

2017-03: Job Tasks, Time Allocation, and Wages

Paul Sullivan

2017-02: How did forecasters respond to the American growth slowdown since the mid-2000s?

Gabriel Mathy and Daniel Kirwin

2017-01: Revisiting the Effect of Crude Oil Price Movements on US Stock Market Returns and Volatility

Ralph Sonenshine and Michael Cauvel

2016-08: Effect of Utility Deregulation and Mergers on Consumer Welfare

Ralph Sonenshine

2016-07: Subnational Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a New Dataset

Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera

2016-06: Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics

Boris Gershman

2016-05: Measuring Regional Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Surveys vs. GIS

Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera