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Interim Report
If the United States’s balance of trade does not improve, the country could eventually find itself in a “debt trap,” the author says. The aim of this paper, the second in a series offering Godley’s strategic analysis, is to display what seems reasonably likely to happen if world output recovers but otherwise past trends, policies, […]
Summary
Summary Winter 1999-2000
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Summary No. 1
Summary Winter 1999–2000
A special feature by Distinguished Scholar Wynne Godley focuses on the relationship between inventory investment and the American business cycle. Also in this issue: a new working paper by Federal Reserve Board Governor Laurence Meyer provides a central banker’s perspective on the Asian crisis. Contents: Conference on Inequality in the Industrialized and Developing Countries […]
Strategic Analysis
Interim Report
If the United States’ balance of trade does not improve, the country could eventually find itself in a “debt trap,” the author says. The aim of this paper, the second in a series offering Godley’s strategic analysis, is to display what seems reasonably likely to happen if world output recovers but otherwise past trends, policies, […]
Public Policy Brief No. 58
A New Approach to Tax-Exempt Bonds
The current system of tax-exempt bond financing is inefficient and inequitable because a large portion of the federal subsidy provided by the tax exemption does not reach state and local governments and accrues instead to the wealthiest investors. In addition, the current system excludes large institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, with their huge pools […]
Public Policy Brief No. 57
Do Institutions Affect the Wage Structure?
Union strength is capable of boosting wages for workers at the low end of the income scale. Even when differences in education and industry type are accounted for, workers in right-to-work states have a greater probability of earning close to the minimum wage than workers in states with relatively high union density. The decline of […]
Public Policy Brief Highlight No. 58
A New Approach to Tax-Exempt Bonds
The current system of tax-exempt bond financing is inefficient and inequitable because a large portion of the federal subsidy provided by the tax exemption does not reach state and local governments and accrues instead to the wealthiest investors. In addition, the current system excludes large institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, with their huge pools […]
Public Policy Brief Highlight No. 57
Do Institutions Affect the Wage Structure?
Union strength is capable of boosting wages for workers at the low end of the income scale. Even when differences in education and industry type are accounted for, workers in right-to-work states have a greater probability of earning close to the minimum wage than workers in states with relatively high union density. The decline of […]
Working Paper No. 293
Employment Inequalities
This paper documents the employment disadvantage faced by the less qualified part of the labor force and examines the factors that influence the differing extent of this disadvantage across OECD countries. We argue that employment rates for quartiles of the population ranked by educational qualification provide the best measure of employment disadvantage. We show that […]
Working Paper No. 292
Why Do Political Action Committees Give Money to Candidates?
This paper examines political action committees’ motivations for giving campaign contributions to candidates for political office. First, the paper estimates the effect of campaign contributions received by candidates on the outcomes of the 1996 elections to the United States House of Representatives. Next, the paper uses a Congressional Quarterly survey of candidates’ policy positions to […]
Working Paper No. 291
The Social Wage, Welfare Policy, and the Phases of Capital Accumulation
This paper addresses two broad questions. The first one relates to the economic rationale for the existence of the welfare state. To address this question, we review the marginalist arguments and then counterpose a historical and institutional analysis of the rise of the US welfare state. The second question concerns the macroeconomic impacts of welfare […]
Working Paper No. 290
Finance in a Classical and Harrodian Cyclical Growth Model
This paper is an extension of an earlier working paper (“Finance and the Macroeconomic Process in a Classical Growth and Cycles Model,” Working Paper No. 253). The basic structure of the model remains unchanged in that it is based on a social accounting matrix (SAM) with endogenous money. Investment in circulating capital adds to output […]