New book: The Political Economy of Central Banking – Contested Control and the Power of Finance
by Gerald Epstein. From Edward Elgar: Central banks are among the most powerful government economic institutions in t
New Book: All Fall Down – Debt, Deregulation and Financial Crises
By Jane D’Arista. From Edward Elgar: All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulati
An Affordable Job Guarantee Program lecture by Fadhel Kaboub
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIypDUVxGb8&w=640&h=360] Fadhel Kaboub is Associate Profe
Deindustrialization in the Granite State: monetary policy, financialization, & the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
By Marie Duggan. From Dollars&Sense: The central room is 65,000 square feet with a high ceiling. This room is noisy
New Book: The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory
Edited by Michael J. Murray & Mathew Forstater. From Palgrave: The contributors to this edited collection argue
New Book: Advances in Endogenous Money Analysis
Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon & Sergio Rossi. From Edward Elgar: The endogenous nature of money is a fact that ha
Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdt37_nRgKg&w=760&h=500]
The Rise of the American Bond-holding Class
By Sandy Brian Hager, The history of class conflict, power and inequality in the United States has always been intimate
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
Fed Raising Interest Rates is Unwelcome and Unnecessary
By Thomas Palley Cross-posted from the AFL-CIO economy blog. Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise in
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
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on 'Monetary policy and negative interest rates' Review of Keynesian Economics
In light of increased unemployment, the absence of strong economic growth and the threat of deflation in many countrie
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 Work by Eric Tymoigne: Towards a Heterodox Perspective on Money, Banking, & Macroeconomics
By Eric Tymoigne This work covers banking, central banking, macroeconomic topics, and money in a completely differen
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
Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?
By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee
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
A Brief Sketch of the Classical-Keynesian Perspective
By David M. Fields From a Classical-Keynesian perspective (Bortis, 1997, 2003), rates of interest regulate rates of p
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