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Research Project ReportΤρέχουσες προοπτικές για την ελληνική οικονομία
Σε αυτήν την προκαταρκτική έκθεση, εξετάζουμε την εξέλιξη των κύριων μακροοικονομικών μεταβλητών για την ελληνική οικονομία, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στις πηγές ανάπτυξης πριν και μετά την εποχή του ευρώ, τα αίτια και τις συνέπειες της συνεχιζόμενης ύφεσης, καθώς και τα πιθανά αποτελέσματα των πολιτικών που εφαρμόζονται σήμερα. Ορισμένες προκαταρκτικές προτάσεις για εναλλακτικές πολιτικές επίσης περιλαμβάνονται […] -
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The Debt Burden, Continued
This old post on the question of how to make sense of the claim that government debt places a net “burden” on future generations—the question of whether there’s an economic case to be made that supports the common claim that today’s public debt levels are an immoral burden on our children and grandchildren—generated a fair [...] -
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The Missing Wall Street Debate
In a 90-minute debate, I’m not sure it’s possible to cover every single issue of pressing national importance and to do so in coherent detail. So the following is a complaint one could make about a number of issues that were missing from last Thursday’s VP debate, but it was a little eyebrow-raising that financial [...] -
Working Paper No. 733Innovation and Finance
Schumpeter, a century ago, argued that boom-and-bust cycles are intrinsically related to the functioning of a capitalistic economy. These cycles, inherent to the rise of innovation, are an unavoidable consequence of the way in which markets evolve and assimilate successive technological revolutions. Furthermore, Schumpeter’s analysis stressed the fundamental role played by finance in fostering innovation, […] -
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Unemployment Figures and the Uncertain Future
We expect the unexpected at the Levy Institute. As followers of Keynes, most economists here, including this author, believe that one cannot assign exact probabilities to most important economic outcomes even, say, six months into the future. On the other hand, thinking about the economic debate on job creation, and the recent release of new [...] -
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MMT, Argentina, and Views on Inflation
On the surface, the data from Argentina look awfully good—among the top performers in the world over the past decade. And she’s apparently done it without a run-up of either private sector or government sector debt. In other words, Argentineans have bucked the trend among developed countries, that saw (mostly) tepid growth fueled almost entirely [...] -
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2012 Money and Banking Conference
Levy Institute scholars James Galbraith and Randall Wray presented at the annual conference held by the Central Bank of Argentina last week. Galbraith’s presentation began with the issue of the flexibility of central bank mandates and then turned to an account of the long-term evolution in the economy that prepared the groundwork for the recent [...] -
One-Pager No. 34Uncovering the Hidden Poor
Standard poverty measurements assume that all households and individuals have enough time to engage in the unpaid cooking, cleaning, and caregiving that are essential to attaining a bare-bones standard of living. But this assumption is false. With the support of the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization, Senior Scholars Rania Antonopoulos and […] -
One-Pager No. 34
Αποκαλύπτοντας τους αόρατους φτωχούς
Τα τυπικά πρότυπα για τη μέτρηση της φτώχειας υποθέτουν ότι όλα τα νοικοκυριά και τα άτομα διαθέτουν αρκετό χρόνο για να ασχοληθούν επαρκώς με τις ανάγκες των μελών του νοικοκυριού (μαγείρεμα, καθάρισμα, φροντίδα των παιδιών, κοκ), καθήκοντα που είναι απολύτως αναγκαία για την επίτευξη ενός ελάχιστου βιοτικού επιπέδου. Αλλά αυτή η υπόθεση είναι ψευδής. Με […] -
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What Are the Post Keynesians Up To?
I returned to the Levy Institute yesterday after the International Post Keynesian Conference in beautiful Kansas City. I will mention some of the news from the conference, for readers who are interested in the kinds of events that Levy Institute scholars attend. At such conferences, ideas are taken very seriously, and many interesting debates were [...] -
Working Paper No. 732
Beyond Full Employment
Over the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment and price stability has been discussed at length in the literature. A different issue has received relatively little attention—namely, the concern that even when the ELR produces these macroeconomic benefits, it does so by offering “low-paying” “dead-end” […] -
Working Paper No. 732
Πέρα από την πλήρη απασχόληση
Τα τελευταία δεκαπέντε χρόνια, η δυνατότητα της πρότασης του εργοδότη της έσχατης προσφυγής να επιτύχει πλήρη απασχόληση και σταθερότητα τιμών έχει συζητηθεί εκτενώς στη βιβλιογραφία. Η ανησυχία, ωστόσο, για το εάν ο εργοδότης της έσχατης προσφυγής παράγει μακροοικονομικά οφέλη αλλά με την προσφορά χαμηλόμισθων θέσεων εργασίας που δεν οδηγούν πουθενά και οι οποίες αποτελούν περαιτέρω […]