Auditing Economic Policy for Human Rights: A Guide for Activists and Advocates
By Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, James Heintz and Jonah Walters Macroeconomic policy affects all of us, n
New Book: Money, Method and Contemporary Post-Keynesian Economics
Edited by Sheila Dow, Jesper Jespersen, and Geoff Tily. From Edward Elgar: This volume concentrates on contemporary P
New Book: Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited – Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
By Joseph E. Stiglitz. From W.W. Norton: In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned eco
New Book: Austerity vs Stimulus – The Political Future of Economic Recovery
Edited by Robert Skidelsky & Nicolò Fraccarol. From Palgrave: This timely book debates the economic and politica
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
New Book: Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy – How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
By John F. M. McDermott. From Palgrave: This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites pr
Dirk Bezemer & Michael Hudson: Finance Is Not the Economy
By Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson Why have economies polarized so sharply since the 1980s, and especially since the 2
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
Pavlina R. Tcherneva on the economic consequences of Donald Trump
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, A lot has been said already. For me, this was the culmination of a decades-long process where th
New Working Paper by Katherine Moos: The Transvaluation of the Theory of Economic Policy-The Lucas Critique Reconsidered
From the abstract: This paper entertains two distinct hypotheses about the meaning and effect of the Lucas critique. T
New Book: The Great Financial Meltdown – Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy Created?
From Edward Elgar. Edited by Turan Subasat The Great Financial Meltdown reviews, advocates and critiques the systemi
Arthur Macewan: Do Trade Agreements Foreclose Progressive Policy?
By Arthur Macewan From the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), adopted in the early 1990s, to the Trans-Pacif
Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, delivered the following testimony before the Democra
Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference
Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat
Ilene Grabel on Capital Controls
New paper published by PERI. From the abstract: The startling resuscitation of capital controls during the global cri
SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th
Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem
Gerald Epstein on Paul Krugman Crossing the Line
By Gerald Epstein Originally posted at Triple Crisis. In his recent New York Times opinion column, “Sanders Over the
A Short Account of the Rise of Neoliberalism
By David M. Fields Between roughly the early 1940’s and early 1970’s, the financial architecture of the w
YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies
The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th