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• Book Series June 01, 2004

  What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations?

  Edward N. Wolff
  Abstract

  Throughout the 1990s the United States expanded its lead over other advanced industrial nations in terms of conventionally measured per capita income. However, it is not clear that welfare levels in America have grown concomitantly with per capita income, nor that Americans are necessarily better off than citizens of other advanced countries. The contributors to […]

• Book Series April 01, 2004

  After the Bell

  Karen M Albright, and Dalton Conley
  Abstract

  Since the publication of the Coleman report in the United States many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on schools. This volume focuses its searchlight on family […]

• Book Series November 21, 2002

  The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

  Joel Perlmann, and Mary C. Waters
  Abstract

  The change in the way the federal government asked for information about race in the 2000 Census marked an important turning point in the way Americans measure race. By allowing respondents to choose more than one racial category for the first time, the Census Bureau challenged strongly held beliefs about the nature and definition of […]

• Book Series November 01, 2002

  The Mind of Wall Street

  Leon Levy, and Eugene Linden
  Abstract

  As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come. Into the breach comes one of Wall Street’s legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often […]

• Book Series February 01, 2001

  Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity

  William H. Lazonick, and Mary O’Sullivan
  Abstract

  How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s? What are the prospects for the reemergence of sustainable prosperity in the American economy over the next generation? In addressing these issues, this book focuses on the microeconomics of corporate investment behavior, especially as reflected […]

• Book Series December 01, 1999

  Modernizing Financial Systems

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  Since the 1980s many changes have taken place in the financial system in the United States and to some extent in other countries—uniform capital requirements have been instituted, regulations have been eased, and market share consolidation of firms in the financial services business has been allowed. But more substantive reforms are necessary to avert crises […]

• Book Series September 01, 1996

  Stability in the Financial System

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  The S&L crisis of the 1990s led many analysts to review the events that culminated in the banking crisis of the 1930s and the subsequent passage of the Emergency Banking Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Banking Act of 1935, and other related legislation. The restructuring of the financial system accomplished by this legislation […]

• Book Series May 01, 1996

  Money in Motion

  Ghislain Deleplace, and Edward J. Nell
  Abstract

  In its analysis of money, contemporary economics has focused on money’s function as a store of value, neglecting its role as a medium of circulation. When circulation is put center stage, it becomes apparent that the supply of money does indeed adapt to the needs of trade, and it does so in myriad ways that […]

• Book Series December 01, 1995

  Income and Employment in Theory and Practice

  Geoffrey Harcourt, Alessandro Roncaglia, and Robin Rowley
  Abstract

  The essays in this volume were written by colleagues and friends of the late Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos. They relate to those areas to which he contributed so much in his teaching and his writings. Most of the essays are concerned with interpretations and extensions, both theoretical and empirical, of the work of Keynes, Kalecki, and […]

• Book Series June 01, 1994

  Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  The essays in this volume explore several aspects of wealth and income distribution during the 1980s, a decade characterized not only by economic expansion, but also by a widening disparity of income and wealth. The changing fortunes of American households and individuals as manifested in demographic and structural changes are examined from different perspectives, and […]

• Book Series December 01, 1993

  Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Edward N. Wolff
  Abstract

  The fact that levels of poverty and inequality showed an unprecedented rise in the 1980s in the United States despite a sustained expansion beginning in 1983 raises concerns about appropriate policy actions needed to offset these developments. The papers in this volume explore manifestations of this inequality, including unexpectedly high poverty rates, shrinkage of the […]

• Book Series November 01, 1992

  Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance

  Steven M. Fazzari, and Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honors Hyman P. Minsky and his lifelong work. The papers consider the clear and disturbing sequence of events described in Minsky’s definitive analysis: boom, government intervention to prevent debt contraction, new boom that causes progressive buildup of new debt and eventually leaves […]

• Book Series April 01, 1992

  Profits, Deficits, and Instability

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  Business accounting defines profits as total revenue minus total costs. Economic theory uses various definitions of profits according to what is being measured (for example, return to ownership, national income profits, real profits) and for what purpose. The concept of profits, however, cannot and should not be reduced to a matter of measurement, but should […]