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Threat Effects and the Internationalization of Production

Gerald Epstein and James Burke

Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming while Protecting the Incomes of American Families

Matthew Riddle and James Boyce

The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities

Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Robert Pollin

The Employment Effects of Downsizing the U.S. Military

Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Robert Pollin

Financialization: What It Is and Why It Matters

Thomas Palley

Emigrant or Sojourner? Migration Intensity and Its Determinants

Florian Kaufmann

Promoting Group Justice: Fiscal Policies in Post-Conflict Countries

Frances Stewart, Alex Cobham and Graham Brown

Current Global Imbalances and the Keynes Plan

Lilia Costabile

External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979-2006

Robert Blecker

Discounting Nordhaus

Thomas Michl

Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Peacebuilding

James Boyce

Financial Development, Financial Structure and Domestic Investment: International Evidence

Leonce Ndikumana

Wage Flexibility or Wage Coordination? Economic Policy Implications of the Wage-Led Demand Regime in the Euro Area

Engelbert Stockhammer

Right-Financing Security Sector Reform

Gordon Peake and Peter Middlebrook

The Interplay between Labor and Financial Markets: What are the Implications for Defined Contribution Accounts?

Jeffrey Wenger and Christian Weller

The Implications of Aging for the Structure and Stability of Financial Markets

Jane D'Arista

Democracy, Income, and Environmental Quality

Kevin Gallagher and Strom Thacker

Jobless Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries

Ozlem Onaran

New Estimates of Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Linkages with External Borrowing and Policy Options

James Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana

Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments

Philippe Le Billon

The Backward Bending Phillips Curves: A Simple Model

Thomas Palley

Keynesian Models of Deflation and Depression Revisited: Inside Debt and Price Flexibility

Thomas Palley

Financial Markets and Economic Development in Africa

Leonce Ndikumana

The Relative Income Theory of Consumption: A Synthetic Keynes-Duesenberry-Friedman Model

Thomas Palley

Credit Access, the Costs of Credit and Credit Market Discrimination

Christian Weller

Financial Globalization and Labor: Employee Shareholding or Labor Regression?

Nacho Álvarez Peralta and Bibiana Medialdea García

By What Measure? A Comparison of French and U.S. Labor Market Performance with New Indicators of Employment Adequacy

David Howell and Anna Okatenko

Prudent Investors: The Asset Allocation of Public Pension Plans

Christian Weller and Jeffrey Wenger

Can Progressive Taxation Contribute to Economic Development?

Christian Weller and Manita Rao

Considerations on Interest Rate Exogeneity

Robert Pollin

Endogenous Money: Implications for the Money Supply Process, Interest Rates, and Macroeconomics

Thomas Palley

Macroeconomics without the LM: A Post-Keynesian Perspective

Thomas Palley

Empowerment Through Risk-Related Information: EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Project

Mark D. Shapiro, Steven M. Hassur and Nicholaas W. Bouwes

Structural Causes of the Global Financial Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the ‘New Financial Architecture’

James Crotty

Proposals for Effectively Regulating the U.S. Financial System to Avoid Yet Another Meltdown

James Crotty and Gerald Epstein

Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy

Robert Pollin

The Relevance of Hyman Minsky

Robert Pollin

The Political Economy of Remittances: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?

Ilene Grabel

Desperate vs. Deadbeat: Can We Quantify the Effect of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005?

Christian Weller, Amanda Logan and Bernard Morzuch

Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance

Michael Ash and James Boyce

Attracting Undocumented Immigrants: The Perverse Effects of U.S. Border Enforcement

Florian Kaufmann

Keeping the Government Whole: The Impact of a Cap-and-Dividend Policy for Curbing Global Warming on Government Revenue and Expenditure

James Boyce and Matthew Riddle

Peak Energy and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth: Prospect of Energy Supply and Economic Growth from Now to 2050

Minqi Li

Global Apparel Production and Sweatshop Labor: Can Raising Retail Prices Finance Living Wages?

James Heintz, Justine Burns and Robert Pollin

Setting an Agenda for Monetary Reform

Jane D'Arista

Social Democratic and Socialist Policies

John King

China and the Latin America Commodities Boom: A Critical Assessment

Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski

Rethinking the Economics of Capital Mobility and Capital Controls

Thomas Palley

New Critical Perspectives on the U.S. and the Post-WWII Global Economy: Brenner, Harvey, and Pollin

Merlin Chowkwanyun

From the Crisis of Distribution to the Distribution of the Costs of the Crisis: What Can We Learn from Previous Crises about the Effects of the Financial Crisis on Labor Share?

Ozlem Onaran