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- Could International Labor Rights Play a Role in U.S. Trade?

- Christian Weller
- On the Nature and Causes of the Collapse of the Wealth of Nations, 2007-2008: The End of a Façade Called Globalization

- Erinc Yeldan
- Response to “Seven Myths about Green Jobs” and “Green Jobs Myths”

- Robert Pollin
- The Social Construction of Successful Market Reforms

- David Stuckler, Lawrence King and Greg Patton
- Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets

- Marc Schaberg, Dean Baker and Robert Pollin
- The Simple Analytics of Debt-Driven Business Cycles

- Thomas Palley
- Unemployment Compensation and High European Unemployment: A Reassessment with New Benefit Indicators

- David Howell and Miriam Rehm
- The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered

- John Weeks
- Goodwin or Kalecki in Demand? Functional Income Distribution and Aggregate Demand in the Short Run

- Engelbert Stockhammer and Robert Stehrer
- The Interaction of Metropolitan Cost-of-living & the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?

- Katie Fitzpatrick and Jeffrey Thompson
- Socialization of Risks without Socialization of Investment: The Minsky Paradox and the Structural Contradiction of Big Government Capitalism

- Minqi Li
- Did Retirees Save Enough to Compensate for the Increase in Individual Risk Exposure?

- Christian Weller
- Climate Change and Damage from Extreme Weather Events

- Robert Repetto and Robert Easton
- Labor productivity: a comparative analysis of the European Union and United States, for the period 1994-2007

- Rafael Fernández and Enrique Palazuelos
- The Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firm: How These Firms Enrich Top Employees, Destroy Shareholder Value and Create Systemic Financial Instability (revised)

- James Crotty
- Can Advocacy-Led Certification Systems Transform Global Corporate Practices? Evidence, and Some Theory

- Michael E. Conroy
- Public Policy Options to Build Wealth for America’s Middle Class

- Christian Weller and Amy Helburn
- Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal

- Robert Pollin and Dean Baker
- The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes

- Dean Baker, Robert Pollin, Travis McArthur and Matt Sherman
- Capital Controls and 21st Century Financial Crises: Evidence from Colombia and Thailand

- Bruno Coelho and Kevin Gallagher
- Not Your Grandfather’s IMF: Global Crisis, ‘Productive Incoherence’ and Developmental Policy Space (significantly revised)

- Ilene Grabel
- Falling into the Liquidity Trap: Notes on the Global Economic Crisis

- Thomas Michl
- Property Rights Reform and Development: A Critique of the Cross-National Regression Literature

- Lawrence King and Osvaldo Gómez Martínez
- Economic Inequality and Environmental Quality: Evidence of Pollution Shifting in Russia

- Marina Vornovytskyy and James Boyce
- Is There a Case for Formal Inflation Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa?

- James Heintz and Leonce Ndikumana
- Generating Jobs through State Employer Tax Credits: Is there a Better Way? (Revised)

- Heidi Garrett-Peltier and Jeffrey Thompson
- China's Urban Unemployment: Exposed 'Disguised Unemployment' or Insufficient Aggregate Demand?

- Minqi Li
- The International Circuit of Key Currencies and the Global Crisis: Is there Scope for Reform?

- Lilia Costabile
- The Troubling Economics and Politics of Paying Interest on Bank Reserves: A Critique of the Federal Reserve’s Exit Strategy

- Thomas Palley
- The Governance Grenade: Mass Privatization, State Capacity and Economic Growth in Post-communist Countries

- Patrick Hamm, David Stuckler and Lawrence King
- The Case for Constructive Ambiguity in a Regulated System: Canadian Banks and the ‘Too Big To Fail’ Problem

- Ellen Russell
- The Proximity of High Volume Developmental Neurotoxin Polluters to Schools: Vulnerable Populations at Risk

- Cristina Legot, Bruce London and John Shandra
- Recent Trends in the Distribution of Income: Labor, Wealth and More Complete Measures of Well Being

- Jeffrey Thompson and Timothy M. Smeeding
- Fiscal Crisis in Europe or a Crisis of Distribution?

- Ozlem Onaran
- Post-Manichean Economics: Foreign Investment, State Capacity and Economic Development in Transition Economies

- Patrick Hamm and Lawrence King
- Institutions, Aggregate Demand and Cross-Country Employment Performance: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives and the Evidence

- David Howell
- Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks?

- Michael Ash, James Boyce, Grace Chang and Helen Scharber
- Economic Performance in Post-Crisis Korea: A Critical Perspective on Neo-Liberal Restructuring

- Kang-Kook Lee and James Crotty
- Contractionary Monetary Policy and the Dynamics of U.S. Race and Gender Stratification

- Stephanie Seguino and James Heintz
- Easy Money? Health and 401(k) Loans

- Christian Weller and Jeffrey Wenger
- Undercounting the Underemployed: How Official Indicators Have Missed Millions of Underutilized Workers

- David Howell
- The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees in New England

- Jeffrey Thompson and John Schmitt
- The causes of the debt crisis in Europe and the role of regional integration

- Carlo Panico
- Austerity is Not a Solution: Why the Deficit Hawks are Wrong

- Robert Pollin
- Proximity to Industrial Releases of Toxins and Childhood Respiratory, Developmental, and Neurological Diseases: Environmental Ascription in East Baton Rouge Parish: Revised

- Cristina Legot, Bruce London, John Shandra and Anna Rosofsky
- The Freetown Declaration: Countercyclical Policy for Africa

- John Weeks
- Financing Peace: International and National Resources for Postconflict Countries and Fragile States

- James Boyce and Shepard Forman
- Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to Set Ethical Standards for the Economics Profession

- Gerald Epstein and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth
- Shifting From the Home to the Market: Accounting for Women's Work in Taiwan, 1965-1995

- Elissa Braunstein
- Financialization and the Global Economy

- Engelbert Stockhammer