The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
By Servaas Storm, The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of econo
New Book by Yanis Varoufakis: Adults In The Room – My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment
From Penguin: Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history w
New Book: Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems – Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity
From Routledge. Edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong In this age of overlapping and mutually re
Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: a talk with former President Dilma Rousseff.
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Student Debt Bubble Diminishes Demand and Ruins Lives, Yet Officials Keep Inflating It
By Yves Smith, The Financial Times has a generally good update on the state of the student debt bubble in the US. The artic
New book: Crisis and the Failure of Economic Theory – The Responsibility of Economists for the Great Recession
By Giancarlo Bertocco. From Edward Elgar: Economists have rightly been criticized for not having foreseen the crisis
New Book: Capitalism, Macroeconomics & Reality – Understanding Globalization, Financialization, Competition & Crisis
By James Crotty. From Edward Elgar: The essays comprising this collection analyze the deep flaws in the methodologica
Matías Vernengo on Latin America’s Crisis: End of the Commodity Super-Cycle, or Return of Neoliberalism
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Democracy At Work: Economic Update with Richard Wolff
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New Book by Dale Johnson: Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy – An American Crisis
From Palgrave: This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the
New Book: States of Discipline – Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order
From Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by Cemal Burak Tansel: Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and th
International Post-Keynesian and Institutionalist Conference: Instability, Growth & Regulation
7-9 December 2017. Grenoble University, Grenoble, France This multidisciplinary conference aims at bringing toget
Global crisis, Neoliberalism, and left alternatives
By Alfredo Saad-Filho, The certainties that turned neoliberalism into the “common sense” of our age are melting into t
Special issue of Nova Economia on Austerity and (Lack of) Growth
Originally posted here Editorial Introduction – Fiscal Austerity and Economic Growth Laura Barbosa de Carval
New Book by Steve Keen: Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
From Polity (to be released April 2017): The Financial Crash that convulsed the world in 2008 had cataclysmic effects o
New Book: The Political Economy of Emerging Markets – Varieties of BRICS in Age of Global Crises & Austerity
From Routledge: Rapid and sustained growth in the 21st century global economy of large developing economies includin
New book by Wolfgang Streeck: How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
From Verso: After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; in
Lara Merling and Dean Baker: The Housing Bubble, Is It Back?
By Lara Merling and Dean Baker, In the last decade, there was an unprecedented run-up in house prices in most parts of the
New Working Paper – Explaining the Euro crisis: Current account imbalances, credit booms and economic policy in different economic paradigms
By Engelbert Stockhammer, Collin Constantine, & Severin Reissl From the abstract: The paper proposes a post-Key