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Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου: Ο “εργοδότης της έσχατης προσφυγής»
Με την ανεργία να αποτελεί το τίμημα για τη σταθεροποίηση της ελληνικής οικονομίας, η Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου προτείνει την ενεργοποίηση των προγραμμάτων άμεσης απασχόλησης, μια νέα εκδοχή του New Deal. -
MME, January 20, 2013
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Ο «εργοδότης της έσχατης προσφυγής»
Με την ανεργία να αποτελεί το τίμημα για τη σταθεροποίηση της ελληνικής οικονομίας, η Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου -ειδική σύμβουλος στο Πρόγραμμα Ανάπτυξης του ΟΗΕ- προτείνει την ενεργοποίηση προγραμμάτων άμεσης απασχόλησης, μια νέα εκδοχή του New Deal. Το πλήρες κείμενο της συνέντευξης είναι διαθέσιμο εδώ. -
Working Paper No. 748Analyzing Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence in Health Care
The effectiveness of public spending remains a relatively elusive empirical issue. This preliminary analysis is an attempt, using benefit incidence methodology, to define the effectiveness of spending at the subnational government level in India’s health sector. The results reveal that the public health system is “seemingly” more equitable in a few states, while regressivity in […] -
Working Paper No. 747
Marriner S. Eccles and the 1951 Treasury – Federal Reserve Accord
The 1951 Treasury – Federal Reserve Accord is an important milestone in central bank history. It led to a lasting separation between monetary policy and the Treasury’s debt-management powers, and established an independent central bank focused on price stability and macroeconomic stability. This paper revisits the history of the Accord and elaborates on the role […] -
BlogFed’s Crisis Transcripts to Be Released
Update: the transcripts were released this morning (Jan. 18) and are available here. Any day now, the transcripts from the 2007 Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meetings will be released to the public (FOMC transcripts are withheld for five years). These transcripts should give us some additional insight into the discussions that were occurring around [...] -
Press ReleaseLevy Economics Institute Research Associate and Bard College Economics Professer Pavlina R. Tcherneva Wins Prestigious Helen Potter Prize from the Association for Social Economics
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On Net-exports Life Support: Germany Is Back at It, and Now Euroland Is Too
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office released its first estimate of German GDP in 2012 at a press conference held in Wiesbaden yesterday: “German economy withstands the European economic crisis in 2012.” Reporting that growth slowed markedly in Germany last year, down to only 0.7 percent from 3 percent in 2011 and 4.2 percent in 2010, the [...] -
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A Special Event with SYRIZA
Next week, January 24th, the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar at Columbia University will feature a special session with top leadership from the Greek opposition party, SYRIZA, including leader of the opposition Alexis Tsipras and economy critic George Stathakis (who gave an entertaining talk at the November Minsky conference in Berlin—see Session 3 for audio). This special event [...] -
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Asking the Right Questions about Government Budgets
Below is the video from the latest session of the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar at Columbia University, featuring Jan Kregel and Forbes‘ John Harvey. The session touched on the sustainability of fiscal and trade deficits, why economists need to study accounting, the risks of paying down the government debt, the real meaning of [...] -
MME, January 13, 2013
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Express: Περικοπές δαπανών και μέτρα λιτότητας αύξησαν το χρέος στον ιδιωτικό τομέα