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Capital Management Techniques In Developing Countries: An Assessment of Experiences From the 1990s and Lessons for the Future

K.S. Jomo, Ilene Grabel and Gerald Epstein

Rentier Incomes and Financial Crises: An Empirical Examination of Trends and Cycles in Some OECD Countries

Dorothy Power and Gerald Epstein

Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000

Matthew Abrena, Gerald Epstein and Dorothy Power

Individual Country Technical Notes for: Trends in the Rentier Income Share in OECD Countries, 1960-2000

Matthew Abrena, Gerald Epstein and Dorothy Power

The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality

James Heintz

Slow Growth, Destructive Competition, and Low Road Labor Relations: A Keynes-Marx-Schumpeter Analysis of Neoliberal Globalization

James Crotty

Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries

Robert Pollin and James Heintz

Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?

Robert Pollin

Alternatives to Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy for Stable and Egalitarian Growth: A Brief Research Summary

Gerald Epstein

The Economics of Civil War: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kisangani Emizet and Leonce Ndikumana

Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization,and the Politics of Social Insurance

Ugo Pagano and Samuel Bowles

An Econometric Analysis of International Variations in Child Welfare

Nasrin Dalirazar

Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Minsik Choi

Social Conflict and Macroeconomics: What Determines the Effectiveness of Aggregate Demand Policies?

Euclid Tsakalotos

The Past as Future? The Contribution of Financial Globalization to the Current Crisis of Neo-Liberalism as a Development Strategy

David Felix

Threat Effects and the Impact of Capital Mobility on Wages and Public Finances: Developing a Research Agenda

Gerald Epstein

Aid, Conditionality, and War Economies

James Boyce

Agricultural Globalization in Developing Countries: Rules, Rationales and Results

Servaas Storm and J. Mohan Rao

The Blessing of the Commons: Small Scale Fisheries, Community Property Rights, and Coastal Natural Assets

John Kurien

Equitable Carbon Revenue Distribution Under an International Emissions Trading Regime

Daniel M. Kammen and Nathan E. Hultman

Extractive Reserves: Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian Amazon

Anthony Hall

Natural and Cultural Assets and Participatory Forest Management in West Africa

Kojo Sebastian Amanor

The Rise of European Unemployment: A Synopsis

Engelbert Stockhammer

Was the IMF's Imposition of Economic Regime Change Justified? A Critique of the IMF's Economic and Political Role in Korea During and After the Crisis

Kang-Kook Lee and James Crotty

Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment

James Boyce

Another Distortion of Adam Smith: The Case of the "Invisible Hand"

Michael Meeropol

Globalization, Inequality and Financial Instability: Confronting the Marx, Keynes and Polanyi Problems in the Advanced Capitalist Economies

Robert Pollin

The Economic Impact of Living Wage Ordinances

Mark D. Brenner

Capital Inflows, Policy Responses, and Their Ill Consequences: Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia in the Decade Before the Crises

Clara Garcia

Deepening Divides in the U.S. Economy, 2004: Jobless Recovery and the Return of Fiscal Deficits

Robert Pollin

Review of The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Pollin

Air Pollution and Per Capita Income: A Disaggregation of the Effects of Scale, Sectoral Composition, and Technological Change

Rachel Bouvier

Elements of an Employment Framework for Poverty Reduction in Ghana

James Heintz

A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture

James Boyce

International Environmental Justice: Building the Natural Assets of the World’s Poor

S. Ravi Rajan and Krista Harper

Exploring the Demographic Factors Affecting Passage of Living Wage Ordinances

Oren M. Levin-Waldman

Rising Foreign Outsourcing and Employment Losses in U.S. Manufacturing, 1987–2002

Minsik Choi, Gerald Epstein and James Burke

Intended vs. Unintended Consequences: Evaluating the New Orleans Living Wage Proposal

Robert Pollin, Mark D. Brenner and Stephanie Luce

Guard Labor: An Essay in Honor of Pranab Bardhan

Arjun Jayadev and Samuel Bowles

Declining Corporate Income Taxes in the 1990s: A State-by-State Analysis of Effective Tax Rates

Elissa Braunstein

Employment, Poverty, and Gender in Ghana

James Heintz

Social Attitudes, Labor Law, and Union Organizing: Toward A New Economics of Union Density

Thomas Palley

The Role of the State in Economic Transformation: Comparing the Transition Experiences of Russia and China

David M. Kotz

Compensation for Environmental Services and Rural Communities: Lessons from the Americas

Leopoldo Dimas, Susan Kandel, Deborah Barry and Herman Rosa

Land Reform and Sustainable Development

Elizabeth Stanton, Peter Rosset and James Boyce

Exchange Market Pressure, Monetary Policy, and Economic Growth: Argentina in 1993 - 2004

Nuria Malet and Clara Garcia

A Chinese Sky Trust? Distributional Impacts of Carbon charges and Revenue Recycling in China

James Boyce, Matthew Riddle and Mark D. Brenner