1st Annual International Workshop on Demand-led Growth, Conflict Inflation, and Macro Policy
Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ) Keynote Speakers: TBA Schedule: TBA CALL FO
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
The French Economy, European Authorities, and the IMF: “Structural Reform” or Increasing Employment?
By Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Alexander Main, and David Rosnick: This paper looks at two competing views among econo
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 by Ron Baiman: The Global Free Trade Error – The Infeasibility of Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage Theory
From Routledge: The doctrine of “free trade” is second only to that of “free markets” in und
Institutions, Monetary Operations and a Demand-Led Global Economy
New book by Piero Ferri: Aggregate Demand, Inequality and Instability
From Edward Elgar: This book studies the relationships between aggregate demand, inequality and instability. It ext
J.W. Mason on functional vs. conventional finance
By J.W. Mason, One pole of current debates about U.S. fiscal policy is occupied by the “functional finance” position—t
New Paper by Tony Aspromourgos: Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates
By Tony Aspromourgos, The role of public debt in Keynes’s economic policy thinking is a question of considerable inter
New Paper by Sergio Cesaratto: Initial and Final Finance in the Monetary Circuit and the Theory of Effective Demand
New Metroeconomica paper by Sergio Cesaratto From the abstract: One remarkable aspect of modern heterodox theory is t