Report No. 2
April 01, 2007
Report April 2007
Who’s really at the top of the economic ladder? A new Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being report by Senior Scholars Edward N. Wolff and Ajit Zacharias examines how comparisons of economic well-being are affected by the inclusion of an accurate measure of well-being derived from wealth.
Contents:
NEW LEVY INSTITUTE MEASURE OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING REPORT
- Wealth and Economic Inequality: Who’s at the Top of the
Economic Ladder?
NEW POLICY NOTE
- The April AMT Shock: Tax Reform Advice for the New Majority
NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEFS
- Maastricht 2042 and the Fate of Europe: Toward Convergence and
Full Employment - US Household Deficit Spending: A Rendezvous with Reality
- The Economics of Outsourcing: How Should Policy Respond?
NEW WORKING PAPERS
- Methodology and Microeconomics in the Early Work of Hyman P. Minsky
- An Inquiry into the Nature of Money: An Alternative to the Functional
Approach - Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security
Benefits - Fisher’s Theory of Interest Rates and the Notion of “Real”:
A Critique - Expensive Living: The Greek Experience under the Euro
- The Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
- Global Imbalances, Bretton Woods II, and Euroland’s Role
in All This - Class Structure and Economic Inequality
- Demand Constraints and Big Government
- Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates and Currency Sovereignty
- Productivity, Technical Efficiency, and Farm Size in Paraguayan
Agriculture - Land Rental and Sales Markets in Paraguay
LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS
- New Senior Scholars
- New Research Scholar
- New Editor
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars