Research Briefs

From Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Judy Fogg ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

2013: The Costs to Fast-Food Restaurants of a Minimum Wage Increase to $10.50 per Hour

Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin

2012: Military Spending and Jobs in Massachusetts

Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Prasannan Parthasarathi

2011: Employment Estimates for Energy Efficiency Retrofits of Commercial Buildings

Heidi Garrett-Peltier

2011: Conditions for Workers at Target: Estimates for a Proposed California Supercenter

Jeannette Wicks-Lim

2011: Transaction Costs, Trading Elasticities and the Revenue Potential of Financial Transaction Taxes for the United States

Robert Pollin and James Heintz

2011: How Wall Street Speculation is Driving Up Gasoline Prices Today

Robert Pollin and James Heintz

2011: An Unblinking Glance at a National Catastrophe and the Potential Dissolution of the Eurozone: Greece’s Debt Crisis in Context

C.J. Polychroniou

2009: Clean Energy Investments, Jobs, And U.S. Economic Well-Being: A Third Response To Heritage Foundation Critics

James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Robert Pollin

2005: The Neoliberal Paradox: The Impact of Destructive Product Market Competition and Impatient Finance on Nonfinancial Corporations in the Neoliberal Era

James Crotty

2003: Confronting the New York Fiscal Crisis: Raising Revenue Through Taxing Stock Market Transactions

James Heintz and Robert Pollin

2003: Capital Management Techniques in Seven Developing Countries During the 1990s: Lessons for Policy Makers

Ilene Grabel and Gerald Epstein

2003: Shifting Women’s Work from the Home to Market: Assessing Policies for Economic Growth in Taiwan

Elissa Braunstein

2003: Out of Gear? Economic Policy and Performance in Post-Apartheid South Africa

James Heintz

2002: Recession, Deficit Spending, and U.S. Economic Prospects

Robert Pollin

2002: The Return of Finance and Finance's Returns: Recent Trends in Rentier Incomes in OECD Countries, 1960-2000

Dorothy Power and Gerald Epstein

2002: Expanding Health Care Coverage Using Living Wage Ordinances: New California Law Paves the Way for Expansion

Mark D. Brenner