Publications

The Winter Summary provides an overview of the Institute's October conference on employment guarantee policies, which focused on government policy initiatives that can create a safety net through public service employment for individuals who are ready, willing, and able to work. Also in this issue: a new Strategic Analysis and Public Policy Brief address the consequences of the current imbalances in the American economy.

Contents:

INSTITUTE RESEARCH

Program: The State of the US and World Economies, and Strategic Analysis

• DIMITRI B. PAPADIMITRIOU, GENNARO ZEZZA, and GREG HANNSGEN, Can Global Imbalances Continue? Policies for the US Economy
• ROBERT W. PARENTEAU, US Household Deficit Spending: A Rendezvous with Reality Program: Monetary Policy and Financial Structure
• L. RANDALL WRAY, Banking, Finance, and Money: A Socioeconomics Approach
• JÖRG BIBOW, How the Maastricht Regime Fosters Divergence as Well as Fragility
• THOMAS I. PALLEY, Rethinking Trade and Trade Policy: Gomory, Baumol, and Samuelson on Comparative Advantage
• GIUSEPPE FONTANA, The “New Consensus” View of Monetary Policy: A New Wicksellian Connection?

Program: Distribution of Income and Wealth, and the LIMEW

• APRIL 2006 CONFERENCE, Government Spending on the Elderly, Working Papers

Program: Gender Equality and the Economy

• CAREN A. GROWN, Quick Impact Initiatives for Gender Equality: A Menu of Options
• CAREN A. GROWN, CHANDRIKA BAHADUR, JESSIE HANDBURY, and DIANE ELSON, The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Program: Employment Policy and Labor Markets

• CONFERENCE, Employment Guarantee Policies: Theory and Practice
• JAMES K. GALBRAITH, Maastricht 2042 and the Fate of Europe: Toward Convergence and Full Employment
• ALFONSO PALACIO-VERA, ANA ROSA MARTÍNEZ-CAÑETE, ELENA MÁRQUEZ DE LA CRUZ, and INÉS PÉREZ-SOBA AGUILAR, Capital Stock and Unemployment: Searching for the Missing Link

Explorations in Theory and Empirical Analysis

• KORKUT A. ERTÜRK, On the Minskyan Business Cycle

INSTITUTE NEWS

• New Research Associates
• New Levy Institute Book
• Levy Institute Awarded Grant from UNDP

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
• Recent Levy Institute Publications