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Development in the Time of Globalization

J. Mohan Rao

Reclaiming Brownfields: From Corporate Liability to Community Asset

K.A. Dixon

Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building: Potential, Experiences to Date, and Critical Challenges

Michael E. Conroy

External Contradictions of the Chinese Development Model: Export-led Growth and the Dangers of Global Economic Contraction

Thomas Palley

Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

Gerald Epstein

Distributional Conflict, The State, and Peacebuilding in Burundi

Leonce Ndikumana

Can Macroeconomic Policy Stimulate Private Investment in South Africa? New Insights from Aggregate and Manufacturing Sector-Level Evidence

Leonce Ndikumana

The Work Environment Index: Technical Background Paper

Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and James Heintz

Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and the Labor Market"

Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin

Inflation and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Non-linear Analysis

Andong Zhu and Robert Pollin

Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice

Manuel Pastor

Neoliberalism, Global Imbalances, and Stages of Capitalist Development

Andong Zhu and Minqi Li

The Effects of Neoliberal "Reforms" on the Post-Crisis Korean Economy

Kang-Kook Lee and James Crotty

Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix (revised version)

Carol E. Heim

Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform For Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

James Heintz and Gerald Epstein

The Fallacy of the Revised Bretton Woods Hypothesis: Why Today’s System is Unsustainable and Suggestions for a Replacement

Thomas Palley

Why Racial Stereotyping Doesn’t Just Go Away: The Question of Honesty and Work Ethic

Elaine McCrate

Mandated Wage Floors and the Wage Structure: New Estimates of the Ripple Effects of Minimum Wage Laws

Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Social Models, Growth and the International Monetary System: Implications for Europe and the United States

Roberto Scazzieri and Lilia Costabile

Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis

Patrick Hamm, David Stuckler and Lawrence King

Accounting for Inequality: A Proposed Revision of the Human Development Index

Elizabeth Stanton

Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies and Poverty

Paul H. Templet

Corruption and Pro-Poor Growth Outcomes: Evidence and Lessons for African Countries

Leonce Ndikumana

Beyond Dualism: Multi-Segmented Labor Markets in Ghana

James Heintz and Fabián Slonimczy

Uprooting Diversity? Peasant Farmers’ Market Engagements and the on-Farm Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources in the Guatemalan Highlands

S. Ryan Isakson

The Correlates of Rentier Returns in OECD Countries

Gerald Epstein and Arjun Jayadev

Changes in Homeowners’ Financial Security during the Recent Housing and Mortgage Boom

Kate Sabatini and Christian Weller

Patterns of Adjustment under the Age of Finance: The Case of Turkey as a Peripheral Agent of Neoliberal Globalization

Erinc Yeldan

The Human Development Index: A History

Elizabeth Stanton

Do Surges in Less-Skilled Immigration Have Important Wage Effects? A Review of the U.S. Evidence

David Howell

Forensic Accounting: Hidden Balance of Payments of the Philippines

Edsel L. Beja

Engendering Human Development: A Critique of the UNDP’s Gender-Related Development Index

Elizabeth Stanton

Wage Share, Globalization, and Crisis: The Case of the Manufacturing Industry in Korea, Mexico, and Turkey

Ozlem Onaran

Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments (revised 10/08)

Stephanie Seguino

If Financial Market Competition is so Intense, Why are Financial Firm Profits so High? Reflections on the Current ‘Golden Age’ of Finance

James Crotty

Is Inequality Bad for the Environment?

James Boyce

U.S. Debt and Global Imbalances

Jane D'Arista

Options for Revenue Generation in Post-Conflict Environments (revision)

Michael Carnahan

An EU Sky Trust: Distributional Analysis for Hungary

Viola Ferjentsik and Michael Ash

Unchained Melody: East Asia in Performance

Edsel L. Beja

The Sanctity of Property Rights in American History

Gerald Friedman

Public Finance, Aid and Post-Conflict Recovery

James Boyce

Is Full Employment Possible Under Globalization? (revised)

Robert Pollin

Some Stylized Facts on the Finance-Dominated Accumulation Regime

Engelbert Stockhammer

A Scheme to Coordinate Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Euro Area

Marta Vàzquez Suàrez and Carlo Panico

Have Differences in Credit Access Diminished in an Era of Financial Market Deregulation?

Christian Weller

U.S., China, and the Unraveling of Global Imbalances

Minqi Li

Employment and Millennium Development Goals

Azizur R. Khan

The Meaning of Poverty: Questions of Distribution and Power

Arthur MacEwan

Financialization and Capital Accumulation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector

Ozgur Orhangazi