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News May 05, 2025

US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) to Give Keynote Address at 32nd Annual Conference

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Policy Notes May 22, 2025

Ratings Agencies Downgrade the Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege

L. Randall Wray

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Policy Notes April 21, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs: Ending Globalization

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza

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Policy Notes April 21, 2025

Remembering Pope Francis’s Call for a Universal Basic Wage

Pavlina R. Tcherneva

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Public Policy Brief No. 158 March 04, 2025

That “Vision Thing”: Formulating a Winning Policy Agenda

Pavlina R. Tcherneva, and L. Randall Wray

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Latest Publications

Working Paper No. 1084 July 09, 2025
MMT: Heuristics versus Paradigm Shift?
L. Randall Wray
Working Paper No. 1083 June 26, 2025
Integrating the Social Reproduction of Labor into Macroeconomic Theory: Unpaid Caregiving and Productivity in Paid Production
Mark Setterfield
Policy Notes May 22, 2025
Ratings Agencies Downgrade the Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege
L. Randall Wray
Research Project Report May 20, 2025
Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care Services in Jordan
İpek Ilkkaracan, Ayse Aylin Bayar, Luiza Nassif Pires, Thomas Masterson, and Ajit Zacharias
Policy Notes May 20, 2025
What Do We Save When We DOGE the Government?
Mark Silverman, and Yeva Nersisyan

Featured Commentary

Blog July 07, 2025

Protecting Social Security: The Case Against Privatization
Edward Lane
Blog June 06, 2025

Confronting Financial Fragility, Worker Crisis, and Global Turmoil
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Policy Notes May 20, 2025

What Do We Save When We DOGE the Government?
One-Pager No. 73 May 05, 2025

The Incoming Recession: Are Imports the Real Culprit?

News & Events

Understanding Modern Money Theory by L. Randall Wray Out Now

US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) to Give Keynote Address at 32nd Annual Conference

Levy Scholar Ajit Zacharias Appointed to National Academies Committee on Measuring the Care Economy

Levy Scholar James K. Galbraith for Bloomberg: “Why Economists Are Looking at Economics All Wrong”

The Levy Institute Welcomes Three New Members to Our Board of Advisors

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Galbraith for The Nation: “Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy”

EFSyn features the latest Strategic Analysis from the Levy Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team, “Greece: Growing on an...

“Small businesses are a bellwether for overall trends in the economy”: Tcherneva on Marketplace