Research Briefs

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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