unemployment
Making excuses for unemployment: The myth of a “skills gap”
By Martin Hart-Landsberg, It has taken ten years of expansion, but the U.S. unemployment rate has finally fallen below
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
By Charles Umney, Ian Greer, Özlem Onaran, Graham Symon Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 fi
New Book: Inequality, Boom, and Bust – From Billionaire Capitalism to Equality and Full Employment
By Howard J. & Paul D. Sherman, From Routledge: There is enormous inequality between the income and wealth of the ri
US Official Unemployment is at 3.9%? It is More Like 12%
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fNrU9wvZ8&w=843&h=474] Unemployment is low and standard
Unemployment: The Silent Epidemic
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment—its propagation mechanism and socioeco
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
Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs
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Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr, & Darrick Hamilton Universal basic income (UBI), an annual government-sponsore
Top Eleven Dollars&Sense Charts and Graphs of 2016
D&S has compiled graphs & charts from the past year. Several draw on the series of “Economy in Numbers” columns
F@ck Work? Scott Ferguson on Universal Basic Income
By Scott Ferguson In the wake of Donald Trump’s alarming election to the White House, historian James Livingston publi
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
Mathew Forstater on Jobs, Money, Debt & Economic Common Sense
Binzagr Institute’s Vlog (video blog) series “Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense” by Mathew Forstater, Resear
Overworked America: The economic causes and consequences of long work hours
by Heather Boushey & Bridget Ansel Hard work is part and parcel of the American Dream, but at a certain point, workin
SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th
Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem
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 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
Yanis Varoufakis on A United, Democratised Europe Is The Only Weapon Against A Dark Continent
Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Pa
Emma Dowling on Love’s Labour’s Cost: The Political Economy of Intimacy
By Emma Dowling Taking care in order to be taken care of. That was the deal of heteronormative love. Underpinning the rom
Why the Left Isn’t Talking About Rural American Poverty
From In These Times: Within the popular American conscience—arguably a close reflection of the mainstream media—the