Babbling budget: IMF Clearing ground for more austerity
By John Weeks, Drugs and much of the food we eat are required to carry health warnings. It is unfortunate that the author
Reclaiming the Tax: Foregrounding the Public Covenant
By Maxximilian Seijo, a graduate student in the Humanities & Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sou
New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED
Greece has a Private Debt Crisis and We Can Blame the Troika
By Lara Merling, The Greek public debt debacle and the bailout received by the government from the European Central Ban
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
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
Brazil’s Enormous Interest Rate Tax: Can Brazilians Afford It?
By Mark Weisbrot, Jake Johnston, and Julia Villarruel Carrillo This paper looks at Brazil’s unusually high interest
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
J.W. Mason: The Action Is on the Asset Side
By J.W. Mason Like most sectors of the US economy, state and local governments have seen a long-term increase in credit-
New Book by Dirk H. Ehnts: Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
From Routledge: This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abs
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