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In a new Strategic Analysis summarized in this issue, President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Scholars Edward Chilcote and Gennaro Zezza observe that the economy continues to grow on an…more

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View Conference Website Bureau for Development Policy, UNDPin partnership withThe Levy Economics Institute of Bard CollegeThe conference on Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals…more

Can the growth in the current account deficit be sustained? A new Strategic Analysis by President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Scholars Edward Chilcote and Gennaro Zezza focuses on net…more

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The stability of the international financial system is in doubt. Analysis of the system has focused mainly on the sustainability of financing the American trade deficit and has failed to…more

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The latest Strategic Analysis by the Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team suggests that much of the recent growth in GDP can be attributed to house price appreciation and private sector borrowing. However,…more

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Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit…more

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The aging of the American population will be a primary domestic public policy issue during the next decades. According to Census Bureau projections, the proportion of the elderly in the…more

The latest Levy Institute Strategic Analysis depicts a household sector that is struggling under an unprecedented burden of debt and relying upon an unsustainable upward trend in real estate prices….more

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When a woman works for General Motors, she is paid for her work, and her work is counted as part of GDP. But what of the work she might do…more

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In most developing countries, efforts to reduce poverty and reach the Millennium Development Goals provide a timely opportunity to draw attention to the contribution of unpaid work to economic and…more

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) currently insures bank deposit balances up to $100,000. According to some observers, statutory protection creates moral hazard problems for insurers because it allows banks…more

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This conference was organized as part of the Levy Institute’s research and policy program of the distribution of income and wealth. Its purpose was to cover issues and topics related…more

A new Levy Institute Strategic Analysis examines the current states of the economy’s main balances and proposes an alternative to the piecemeal protectionist measures that some have advocated. The authors…more

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Organized by the Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College View Conference Website The purpose of convening this conference…more

Organized by the Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College View Conference Website The purpose of convening this conference…more

Download Conference Proceedings, October 1–3, 2005 PDF (1.30 MB)

In a new Policy Note, Distinguished Scholar Wynne Godley observes that the state of aggregate demand in the United States is precariously based, as private debt and borrowing cannot continue…more

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As his new term begins, President George W. Bush has been trying to focus his domestic agenda on what he calls the “ownership society,” a sweeping vision of an America…more

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The July Report leads off with a summary of the Levy Institute’s Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, which this year examined the fiscal and monetary policies required for sustainable growth….more

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For some time, Levy Institute scholars have been engaged with issues related to the current account, government, and private sector balances. We have argued that the existing imbalances in these…more

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This issue begins with a sensitivity analysis of public consumption—a major component of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being—in relation to economic well-being in the United States. One of…more

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Participants at the 15th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference offered their viewpoints on the American economy’s recovery following a short-lived recession, policy guidelines to be considered within the context of…more

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This year’s Hyman P. Minsky Conference drew upon public discussions on the state of the United States and world economies in the context of current economic trends and their implications….more

A new Strategic Analysis by the Levy Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team assesses the main sector balances, all of which are now deficits. The private sector, led by personal borrowing, is now…more

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A conference on the distributional effects of government spending and taxation was held at the Levy Institute’s conference center in fall 2004 and is summarized under The Distribution of Income…more