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February 12, 2024
Good Intentions, Better Outcomes: Shifting the Debate About Social Protection and Informality
By: James Heintz, Jayati Ghosh -
January 26, 2024
Freedom of Association as a Key Aspect of Human Capital Management
By: Lenore Palladino -
January 16, 2024
The Economy in its Labyrinth: A Structuralist View of the Mexican Economy in the 21st Century
By: Liz Monroy Gomez Franco -
January 02, 2024
IMF Standby Agreements and Inequality: The Role of Informality
By: Ceyhun Elgin, Adem Elveren -
January 01, 2024
Dark Spots in the International Commodity Value Chain: The Case of Copper in Zambia
By: Dale Mudenda, Léonce Ndikumana -
December 28, 2023
Hazardous Drinking in Privatized Industrial Towns of Russia
By: Alexi Gugushvili, Aytalina Azarova, Darja Irdam, Lawrence King -
December 14, 2023
Paying with Austerity: The Debt Crisis and Restructuring in Sri Lanka
By: C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh, Debamanyu Das -
December 04, 2023
The International Monetary Fund and Neonatal Mortality Rates, 1985-2018
By: Shih-Yen Pan, Michael Ash, Bridget Diana, Lawrence King, Joseph Lavallee, Ta Minh Quan, Elias Nosrati -
November 08, 2023
Caste and Space in Indian Cities
By: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Sripad Motiram -
November 06, 2023
Climate Adaptation and Job Creation: Addressing the Climate and Livelihoods Crises in India
By: Anjana Thampi -
October 25, 2023
Exchange Rate Arrangements: Fix, Float, or Manage?
By: Nathaniel Cline, Carlos Schönerwald da Silva, Matias Vernengo -
September 25, 2023
Structural Changes and Dominance of Finance in Contemporary Capitalism
By: Sunanda Sen -
September 11, 2023
Gold in Ghana: A Story of Unbalanced Exchange
By: Léonce Ndikumana, William Godfred Cantah -
August 23, 2023
Cocoa in Ghana, the ‘Political Crop’: Does State Control Shield the Cocoa Sector from Exposure to Capital Flight?
By: Léonce Ndikumana, Kwame Adjai-Mantey -
August 23, 2023
Capital Flight from Natural Resource-Dependent African Countries: Updated Estimates and Analysis for the Cases of Cameroon, Ghana, and Zambia, 1970-2021
By: Léonce Ndikumana -
June 15, 2023
Optimal Inflation Targeting With Anchoring
By: Thomas Michl -
June 15, 2023
The Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the Anglo-American Welfare Model: Transformations in the US and UK over Four Decades
By: Katherine Moos, Pilar Gonalons-Pons -
June 15, 2023
Not So Clear: Revisiting the Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Environmental Justice
By: Michael Ash, Manuel Pastor -
May 15, 2023
China’s Changing COVID-19 Policies: Market and Public Health
By: Zhun Xu -
May 05, 2023
The Crisis of Capitalism, the Noun
By: Nancy Folbre -
April 24, 2023
Federal Reserve Monetary Policy and Wealth Inequality
By: Aaron Medlin, Gerald Epstein -
March 22, 2023
Does Project-Level Aid for Water and Sanitation Improve Child Health Outcomes? Evidence from Household Panel Data in Uganda
By: Lynda Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher, Léonce Ndikumana -
March 10, 2023
The Cross-Border Interbank Payment System: A Case Study in Chinese Economic Leadership
By: Aidan Campbell -
March 06, 2023
Reproductive Injustice? A County-Level Analysis of the Impact of Abortion Restrictions on Abortion Rates
By: Raymond Caraher -
March 03, 2023
Environmental Inequality in Industrial Brownfields: Evidence from French Municipalities
By: Charlotte Bez, Michael Ash, James K. Boyce -
February 27, 2023
Sellers’ Inflation, Profits, and Conflict: Why Can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency?
By: Isabella Weber, Evan Wasner -
February 21, 2023
The Political Economy of the Cost of Living Crisis in the UK: What Is to Be Done?
By: Ozlem Onaran -
February 14, 2023
Fossil Fuel Industry Phase-Out and Just Transition: Designing Policies to Protect Workers’ Living Standards
By: Robert Pollin -
February 09, 2023
State Capitalism, Imperialism, and China: Bringing History Back In
By: Isabella Weber -
February 01, 2023
Federal Reserve Anti-Inflation Policy: Wealth Protection for the 1%?
By: Aaron Medlin, Gerald Epstein -
February 01, 2023
Inflation and Paid Care Services in the U.S.
By: Nancy Folbre -
December 28, 2022
Inflation Targeting in Open Economies: The Contradictions of Determinacy and Stability
By: Esteban Perez-Caldentey, Matias Vernengo -
December 12, 2022
Considerations on Inflation, Economic Growth and the 2 Percent Inflation Target
By: Robert Pollin, Hanae Bouazza -
December 08, 2022
Past Economic Decline Predicts Opioid Prescription Rates
By: Herb Susmann, Elias Nosrati, Michael Ash, Michael Marmot, Lawrence King -
December 05, 2022
The Distribution of the Cost of Cuban Social Reproduction in 2016: The Relative Contributions of Domestic and Diasporic Households, the Private Sector, and the State
By: Anamary Maqueira Linares, Katherine Moos -
December 03, 2022
Lessons from the Inflation of 2021-202(?)
By: Asha Banerjee, Josh Bivens -
November 28, 2022
Savings Glut, Secular Stagnation, Demographic Reversal, and Inequality: Beyond Conventional Explanations of Lower Interest Rates
By: Matias Vernengo -
October 31, 2022
Time Use Data in Feminist Political Economy Analyses: Gender and Class in the Indian Time Use Survey
By: Sirisha Naidu, Smriti Rao -
September 24, 2022
Inconsistent Definitions of GDP: Implications for Estimates of Decoupling
By: Gregor Semieniuk -
September 07, 2022
Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing
By: James K. Boyce, Michael Ash, Brent Ranalli -
August 09, 2022
The Price of Speculation: Cryptocurrencies and Climate Change
By: Izaura Solipa, Gerald Epstein -
April 21, 2022
What Do We Really Know about Productivity Differentials across Countries?
By: Jayati Ghosh -
April 13, 2022
The Environmental Consequences of Inequality
By: James K. Boyce -
March 10, 2022
Who Gains from Agricultural “Reform”?: Understanding the 2020 Farm Laws and Protests
By: C. P. Chandrasekhar -
January 11, 2022
Does Station Name Matter?: Rent Seeking Behavior and Its Impact on Housing Prices
By: Hwiwon Seo, Minsik Choi -
December 16, 2021
The State-Constituted Market Economy: A Conceptual Framework for China’s State–Market Relations
By: Isabella Weber, Hao Qi -
December 06, 2021
U.S. Monetary Policy and the Decline in the Interest Rates (1990-2007)
By: Santiago Capraro, Carlo Panico, Luis Daniel Torres-Gonzalez -
November 22, 2021
Does Project-Level Foreign Aid Increase Access to Improved Water Sources? Evidence from Household Panel Data in Uganda
By: Lynda Pickbourn, Raymond Caraher, Léonce Ndikumana -
November 16, 2021
The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Outsourcing: Re-examining the Pollution Haven Effect in Global Value Chain
By: An Li -
November 10, 2021
Regulated Market, Trapped Workers: The Impacts of the "Tolerant and Prudent" Policy on Labour Precarity in China’s Online Ridehailing Sector
By: Wei Zhang, Hao Qi, Zhongjin Li -
October 13, 2021
The Nature of Money and the Theory of International Trade: Thornton and Ricardo
By: Isabella Weber -
October 07, 2021
Stranded Fossil-Fuel Assets Translate into Major Losses for Investors in Advanced Economies
By: Gregor Semieniuk, Philip B. Holden, Jean-Francois Mercure, Pablo Salas, Hector Pollitt, Katharine Jobson, Pim Vercoulen, Unnada Chewpreecha, Neil Edwards, Jorge E Viñuales -
October 06, 2021
The (Im-)Possibility of Rational Socialism: Mises in China’s Market Reform Debate
By: Isabella Weber -
August 25, 2021
Mapping Religion, Space, and Economic Outcomes in Indian Cities
By: Sripad Motiram, Vamsi Valuabharanam -
July 29, 2021
Predicting Chinese Banking Policy Incidence
By: Sara Hsu -
June 29, 2021
Financialization, Deindustrialization, and Instability in Latin America
By: Esteban Perez-Caldentey, Matias Vernengo -
June 28, 2021
Financialization and Militarization: An Empirical Investigation
By: Pelin Akcagun, Adem Elveren -
June 23, 2021
The Flimsy Foundations of Neoliberal Macroeconomics: David Gordon on Saving, Investment, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
By: Robert Pollin -
June 08, 2021
Predicting Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Policy Incidence
By: Sara Hsu -
May 29, 2021
Is There a Case for National Development Banks in Africa? Conceptual Rationale and Empirical Evidence
By: Léonce Ndikumana, Karmen Naidoo, Francisco Perez -
April 09, 2021
Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
By: Gabor Scheiring, Aytalina Azarova, Darja Irdam, Katarzyna Doniec, Martin McKee -
April 08, 2021
Did Alcohol Policy Really Cause the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis? Revisiting the Rebound and Affordability Hypotheses
By: Aytalina Azarova, Gabor Scheiring, Michael Ash, Lawrence King -
March 18, 2021
The Public Banking Movement in the United States: Networks, Agenda, Initiatives, and Challenges
By: Esra Ugurlu, Gerald Epstein -
March 17, 2021
Notes on Covid-19, Potential GDP, and Hysteresis
By: Thomas Michi -
January 28, 2021
Post-American Moments in Global Financial Governance in the New Millennium
By: Ilene Grabel -
January 12, 2021
Oil and Capital Flight: The Case of Angola
By: Nicholas Shaxson -
January 08, 2021
Work and Social Reproduction in Rural India: Lessons from Time-Use Data
By: Smita Ramnarain, Sirisha Naidu, Anupama Uppal, Avanti Mukherjee -
January 07, 2021
National Policy Space: Reframing the Political Economy of Globalization and Its Implications for National Sovereignty and Democracy
By: Thomas I. Palley -
December 10, 2020
South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes Between 1950 and 2020
By: Vamsi Vakulabharanam -
December 10, 2020
Privatization and the Postsocialist Fertility Decline
By: Gabor Scheiring, Bryant Hui, Darja Irdam, Aytalina Azarova, Eva Fodor -
November 30, 2020
Deindustrialization and Deaths of Despair: Mapping the Impact of Industrial Decline on Ill Health
By: Gabor Scheiring, David Stuckler, Lawrence King -
November 26, 2020
Zombie Prevalence and Survival
By: Debamanyu Das, Saurabh Roy -
November 18, 2020
Looming Debt Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Drivers, Implications and Policy Options
By: Léonce Ndikumana, Theresa Mannah-Blankson, Angelica Espiritu-Njuguna -
November 17, 2020
Should Economists Deceive? Prosocial Lying, Paternalism, and the ‘Ben Bernanke Problem’
By: George DeMartino -
October 05, 2020
Coronavirus Fiscal Policy in the United States: Lessons from Feminist Political Economy
By: Katherine Moos -
October 02, 2020
Low-Carbon Transition Risks for Finance
By: Gregor Semieniuk, Emanuele Campiglio, Neil Edwards -
September 14, 2020
Gender and Work Patterns in Indian Cities: A Socio-Spatial Analysis
By: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Sripad Motiram -
September 02, 2020
The Janus Faces of Money, Property, and Governance: Fiscal Finance, Empire, and Race
By: Jamee K. Moudud -
August 28, 2020
Beyond the Coronavirus: Understanding Crises of Social Reproduction
By: Smriti Rao -
August 24, 2020
The State's Response to the Crisis of Neoliberalism: A Comparison of the Net Social Wage in China and the United States, 1992-2017
By: Katherine Moos, Hao Qi -
August 05, 2020
Potential Reserve Army and Diverging Paths of Transition in Former State Socialist Economies
By: Zhun Xu -
August 05, 2020
How Race and Gender Shape COVID-19 Unemployment Probability
By: Armagan Gezici, Ozge Ozay -
July 13, 2020
A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Turkey’s Economy and a Policy Alternative to Protect Labor Incomes
By: Ebru Voyvoda, Erinc Yeldan -
July 08, 2020
Bitter Chocolate: Wealth Extraction in Côte d'Ivoire
By: Jean Merckaert -
June 29, 2020
Corporate Political Power and US Foreign Policy, 1981-2002: The Role of the Policy-Planning Network
By: Philip Luther-Davies -
June 29, 2020
Political Economy of the Environment: A Look Back and Ahead
By: James K. Boyce -
June 19, 2020
Public Investment in Home Health Care: A Win-Win Strategy for Employment and Public Health
By: Lenore Palladino -
June 09, 2020
Delhi Green Deal
By: Rohit Azad, Shouvik Chakraborty -
June 04, 2020
Do Firms With Higher Energy Efficiency Have Better Access to Finance?
By: Philipp-Bastian Brutscher -
June 02, 2020
Capital Flight from South Africa: A Case Study
By: Léonce Ndikumana, Karmen Naidoo, Adam Aboobaker -
April 30, 2020
Path Dependence and Stagnation in a Classical Growth Model
By: Thomas R. Michl, Daniele Tavini -
April 17, 2020
Inequality in Energy Consumption: Statistical Equilibrium or a Question of Accounting Conventions?
By: Gregor Semieniuk, Isabella Weber -
March 11, 2020
The U.S.–China Trade Imbalance and the Theory of Free Trade: Debunking the Currency Manipulation Argument
By: Anwar Shaikh, Isabella Weber -
February 28, 2020
Explaining Turkey’s Current Economic Crisis
By: Erinc Yeldan