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  Working Paper No. 302

  Kaleckian Models of Growth in a Stock-flow Monetary Framework

  This paper presents a simple growth model grounded in a stock-flow monetary accounting framework. The framework ensures that all stocks and all flows are accounted for and that the real and financial sides of the economy are coherent with one another. Credit, money, equities and stocks of real capital link periods of time with one […]
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  Policy Notes No. 6

  Drowning in Debt

  The economic expansion in the United States has been driven to an unusual extent by falling personal saving and rising borrowing by the private sector. If this process goes into reverse, as has happened under comparable circumstances in other countries, there will be severe recession unless there is a big relaxation in fiscal policy.
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  Report No. 2

  Report June 2000

  Proponents of globalization have expressed frustration with the reluctance of some members of Congress to support it. At the Levy Institute’s annual Minsky conference in April, summarized in this issue, Representative Barney Frank explained that it is not globalization per se that he and other members oppose, but globalization absent safety nets for those who […]
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  Press Release

  Levy Institute Conference to Examine Economic Inequality, Savings, Inergenerational Transfers, and The Distribution of Wealth

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  Working Paper No. 301

  Trends in Direct Measures of Job Skill Requirements

  It is commonly assumed that jobs in the United Sates require ever greater levels of skill and, more strongly, that this trend is accelerating as a result of the diffusion of information technology. This has led to substantial concern over the possibility of a growing mismatch between the skills workers possess and the skills employers […]
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  Working Paper No. 300

  Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership, 1983–1998

  Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that wealth inequality continued to rise in the United States after 1989, though at a reduced rate. The share of the wealthiest 1 percent of households rose by 3.6 percentage points from 1983 to 1989 and by another 0.7 percentage points from 1989 to 1998. […]
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  Policy Notes No. 5

  Can the Expansion Be Sustained?

  Hyman P. Minsky’s insights into the relationship between profits, economic growth, and the public and private financial balances are particularly relevant to today’s conditions. How can a Minskyan view be applied to explain the processes that brought the economy to its current state and to recommend a policy stance for the future?
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  Conference Proceedings

  10th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Structure

  Minsky’s research, writing, and speeches focused on the causes and consequences of the financial vulnerabilities inherent in advanced and complex capitalist economies and on the policy implications emanating from this systemic fragility. This conference—the Institute’s 10th such gathering—commemorated Minsky by addressing issues related to the need to continuously assess the fragility and structure of the […]
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  Policy Notes No. 4

  Health Care Finance in Need of Rethinking

  Hospitals have been squeezed by the Balanced Budget Act; the uninsured population is still on the rise; and long-term care is paid for largely by welfare grants. The nation’s flawed structure of health care finance ultimately will adversely affect the quality of care for all.
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  Working Paper No. 299

  The Public Commodities Problem

  The decision about how much to spend on a public program depends on the answers to two questions: Should the government pursue the goal of this program? Given that the program’s goal should be adopted, what is the optimal level of spending to achieve it? If the answer to the first question is yes, it […]
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  Working Paper No. 298

  Krugman on the Liquidity Trap

  Paul Krugman has argued that Japan is in a liquidity trap and that it can recover only if the central bank there follows a policy of “credible inflation.” This paper argues that Krugman’s proposal, which is similar to what Fisher proposed during the Depression, is based on a different interpretation of the liquidity trap from […]
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  Working Paper No. 297

  What’s Behind the Recent Rise in Profitability?

  Profitability in the United States has been rising since the early 1980s and by 1997 was at its highest level since its postwar peak in the mid 1960s, and the profit share, by one definition, was at its highest point. In this paper I examine the role of the change in the profit share and […]