Summary Winter 2007
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