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ppb_56: Risk Reduction in the New Financial Architecture: Realities and Fallacies in International Financial Reform

Martin Mayer

ppb_55: Does Social Security Need Saving? Providing for Retirees throughout the Twenty-first Century

Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray

ppb_54: Down and Out in the United States, An Inside Look at the Out of the Labor Force Population

Marc-Andre Pigeon and L. Randall Wray

ppb_53: Full Employment Has Not Been Achieved, Full Employment Policy: Theory and Practice

Dimitri Papadimitriou

ppb_52: Government Spending in a Growing Economy, Fiscal Policy and Growth Cycles

Jamee K. Moudud

ppb_51: Small Business and Welfare Reform, Levy Institute: Survey of Hiring and Employment Practices

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

ppb_50: Public Employment and Economic Flexibility: The Job Opportunity Approach to Full Employment

Mathew Forstater

ppb_49: Corporate Governance in Germany, Productive and Financial Challenges

Mary O'Sullivan

ppb_48: Japanese Corporate Governance and Strategy: Adapting to Financial Pressures for Change

William Lazonick

ppb_47: Regulating HMOs, An Ethical Framework for Cost-Effective Medicine

Walter M. Cadette

ppb_46: Self-reliance and Poverty, Net Earnings Capacity versus: Income for Measuring Poverty

Robert Haveman and Andrew Bershadker

ppb_45: Did the Clinton Rising Tide Raise All Boats? Job Opportunity for the Less Skilled

Marc-Andre Pigeon and L. Randall Wray

ppb_44: The Asian Disease: Plausible Diagnoses, Possible Remedies, Regulation of Cross-Border Interbank Lending and Derivatives Trade

Martin Mayer

ppb_43: How Big Should the Public Capital Stock Be? The Relationship Between Public Capital and Economic Growth

David Aschauer

ppb_42: Automatic Adjustment of the Minimum Wage, Linking the Minimum Wage to Productivity

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

ppb_41: Side Effects of Progress, How Technological Change Increases the Duration of Unemployment

William Baumol and Edward Wolff

ppb_40: Overcoming America's Infrastructure Deficit, A Fiscally Responsible Plan for Public Capital Investment

S Jay Levy and Walter M. Cadette

ppb_39: The Unmeasured Labor Force, The Growth in Work Hours

Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose

ppb_38: Who Pays for Disinflation? Disinflationary Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Income

Willem Thorbecke

ppb_37: Investment in Innovation, Corporate Governance and Employment: Is Prosperity Sustainable in the United States?

William H. Lazonick and Mary O'Sullivan

ppb_36: Dangerous Metaphor: The Fiction of the Labor Market, Unemployment, Inflation, and the Job Structure

James K. Galbraith

ppb_35: Reflecting the Changing Face of America, Multiracials Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage

Joel Perlmann

ppb_34: Safeguarding Social Security, The Challenge of Financing the Baby Boom's Retirement

Walter M. Cadette

ppb_33: Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Inequality? No Easy Answers: Labor Market Problems in the United States versus Europe

Rebecca Blank

ppb_32: What's Missing from the Capital Gains Debate? Real Estate and Capital Gains Taxation

Michael Hudson and Kris Feder

ppb_31: A New Path from Welfare to Work, The New Welfare and the Potential for Workforce Development

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

ppb_30: Prescription for Health Care Policy, The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies to Health Care

Walter M. Cadette

ppb_29: Institutional Failure and the American Worker, The Collapse of Low-Skill Wages

David Howell

ppb_28: Making Work Pay, Wage Insurance for the Working Poor

Barry Bluestone and Teresa Ghilarducci

ppb_27: Targeting Inflation, The Effects of Monetary Policy on the CPI and Its Housing Component

Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray

ppb_26: Making Unemployment Insurance Work, Reforming Unemployment Insurance: Toward Greater Employment

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

ppb_25: Capital Gains Taxes and Economic Growth, Effects of a Capital Gains Tax Cut on the Investment Behavior of Firms

Steven Fazzari and Benjamin Herzon

ppb_24: Revisiting Bretton Woods, Proposals for Reforming the International Monetary Institutions

Raymond F. Mikesell

ppb_23: A Critical Imbalance in U.S. Trade, The U.S. Balance of Payments, International Indebtedness, and Economic Policy, No. 23, 1995

Wynne Godley

ppb_22: Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending

Thomas Karier

ppb_21: The Consolidated Assistance Program, Reforming Welfare by Synchronizing Public Assistance Benefits

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

ppb_20: Assessing the Constitutional Route to Federal Budget Balance, The Balanced Budget Amendment: Toxic, Not Tonic

Charles J. Whalen

ppb_19: Cooperate to Compete, Employee Participation and Productivity: Evidence from a New Survey of Japanese Firms

Takao Kato

ppb_18: The Economics of Aging, Can We Afford Grandma and Grandpa?

S. Jay Levy

ppb_17: Narrow Banking Reconsidered, The Functional Approach to Financial Reform

Ronnie Phillips

ppb_16: Infrastructure Investment for Tomorrow, A Financing Plan to Eliminate the Deferred Maintenance on the Nation's Roads

Edward V. Regan

ppb_15: Monetary Policy Uncovered, Flying Blind: The FederalReserve's Experiment with Unobservables

Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray

14: Linking Public Capital to Economic Performance, Public Capital: The Missing Link Between Investment and Economic Growth

Sharon J. Erenburg

13: Investment Tax Credit Reconsidered, Business Tax Incentives and Investments

Thomas Karier

12: An Alternative in Small Business Finance, Community-Based Factoring Companies and Small Business Lending

Dimitri Papadimitriou, Ronnie Phillips and L. Randall Wray

11: A Path to Good Jobs? Unemployment and Low Wages: The Distribution of Opportunity for Young Unskilled Workers

Robert M. Hutchens

10: Job-Lock: An Impediment to Labor Mobility? Is Health Insurance Crippling the Labor Market?

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

9: The Investment-Finance Link, Investment and U.S. Fiscal Policy in the 1990s

Steven Fazzari

8: Financing Prosperity in the Next Century, The Changing World of Banking: Setting the Regulatory Agenda

James Barth and R. Dan Brumbaugh

7: Immigration Policy: A Tool of Labor Economics? Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: Public Policy Gone Awry

Vernon M. Briggs

6: A Path to Community Development, The Community Reinvestment Act, Lending Discrimination, and the Role of Community Development Banks

Dimitri Papadimitriou, Ronnie Phillips and L. Randall Wray

5: The Limits of Prudential Supervision, Reorganizing the Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies

Bernard Shull

4: "Public Infrastructure Investment: A Bridge to Productivity Growth? Public Capital and Economic Growth,; New Federal Spending for Infrastructure: Should We Let This Genie Out of the Bottle?

David Aschauer and Douglas Holtz-Eakin

3: Community Development Banking, A Proposal to Establish a Nationwide System of Community Development Banks

Hyman Minsky, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Ronnie Phillips and L. Randall Wray

2: An Economic Assessment: Contained Depression or the Foothills of Recovery? U.S. and Global Finance Prospects; The Performance of the Economy Since the October 1987 Crash

Robert Barbera and David A. Levy

1: Restructuring the Financial Structure Personal Views on Financial Reform; Fundamental Change Little by Little: Banking Evolution

Anthony M. Solomon and Alex J. Pollock