Report No. 2
May 11, 2009
Report April 2009
There is broad consensus that the prospects for the domestic economy have become dire, requiring extensive government intervention. In a new Strategic Analysis highlighted in the current issue of the Report, Levy scholars take a more skeptical view of the effectiveness of the policy prescriptions currently on offer—and argue that the global economy must be run in an entirely new way.
NEW STRATEGIC ANALYSES
- Prospects for the United States and the World: A Crisis that Conventional Remedies Cannot Resolve
- Flow of Funds Figures Show the Largest Drop in Household Borrowing in the Last 40 Years
NEW PUBLIC POLICY BRIEFS
- After the Bust: The Outlook for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy
- The Case Against Intergenerational Accounting: The Accounting Campaign Against Social Security and Medicare
- The Return of Big Government: Policy Advice to President Obama
NEW POLICY NOTE
- Obama’s Job Creation Promise: A Modest Proposal to Guarantee That He Meets and Exceeds Expectations
NEW LIMEW REPORTS
- Postwar Trends in Economic Well-Being in the United States, 1959–2004
- What Are the Long-Term Trends in Intergroup Economic Disparities?
NEW WORKING PAPERS
- Small Is Beautiful: Evidence of an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Yield in Turkey
- Hypothetical Integration in a Social Accounting Matrix and Fixed-price Multiplier Analysis
- Insuring Against Private Capital Flows: Is It Worth the Premium? What Are the Alternatives?
- Macroeconomic Imbalances in the United States and Their Impact on the International Financial System
- Financial Stability: The Significance and Distinctiveness of Islamic Banking in Malaysia
- Long-Term Trends in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), United States, 1959–2004
LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS
- 2008 Economists for Peace and Security Conference
- 18th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
- Recent Levy Institute Publications