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BlogChange in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism
In his latest policy note, C. J. Polychroniou argues that the political and economic dominance of finance is pushing advanced liberal societies to a breaking point: The main problem is the power that finance capitalism exerts over domestic society and the abuses that it inflicts. Finance capitalism is economically unproductive (it does not create true [...] -
Working Paper No. 711Global Financial Crisis
This paper provides a quick review of the causes of the Global Financial Crisis that began in 2007. There were many contributing factors, but among the most important were rising inequality and stagnant incomes for most American workers, growing private sector debt in the United States and many other countries, financialization of the global economy […] -
Working Paper No. 711
H παγκόσμια χρηματοοικονομική κρίση
Η παρούσα εργασία παρέχει μια γρήγορη επισκόπηση των αιτιών της παγκόσμιας χρηματοοικονομικής κρίσης που ξεκίνησε το 2007. Υπήρξαν πολλοί παράγοντες που συνέβαλαν στο ξέσπασμα της κρίσης, αλλά ανάμεσα στους πιο σημαντικούς ήταν η αυξανόμενη ανισότητα και τα στάσιμα εισοδήματα για τους περισσότερους αμερικανούς εργαζόμενους, το αυξανόμενο χρέος του ιδιωτικού τομέα στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και σε […] -
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Can Tax-Backed Bonds Save the Eurozone?
Philip Pilkington and Warren Mosler have teamed up to present a financial innovation that they believe could settle the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis: a special type of “tax-backed bond” that contains a clause stating that if (and only if) the country issuing the bond defaults, the bond can be used to make tax payments in [...] -
Policy Notes No. 4ax-backed Bonds—A National Solution to the European Debt Crisis
The root of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis can be found in the fact that investors are concerned that countries in the periphery might default, causing them to demand a higher yield on government bonds. What’s needed is a way of giving peripheral debt a high degree of safety while allowing peripheral countries to remain users of the euro. […] -
Policy Notes No. 4
Έκδοση κρατικών ομολόγων με τη στήριξη φόρων—Μια εθνική λύση στην Ευρωπαϊκή κρίση χρέους
Η ρίζα της ευρωπαϊκής κρίσης χρέους βρίσκεται στο γεγονός ότι οι επενδυτές ανησυχούν πως οι χώρες στην περιφέρεια της ευρωζώνης μπορεί να χρεοκοπήσουν. Αυτή η ανησυχία οδηγεί τους επενδυτές να απαιτούν μεγαλύτερα επιτόκια στα κρατικά ομόλογα των περιφερειακών χωρών. Αυτό συνεπώς που χρειάζεται είναι ένας τρόπος να μετατραπεί το περιφερειακό χρέος σε ασφαλές χρέος ενώ […] -
Policy Notes No. 3
Reconceiving Change in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism
The five-year-long crisis of Western finance capitalism is pushing advanced liberal societies to a breaking point. If governments continue to be proxies of finance capital and aspiring political leaders cheerleaders for their financial backers, a catastrophic economic scenario is not really as far-fetched as some might like to think. Governments, industries, and households are under […] -
Policy Notes No. 3
Επαναπροσδιορίζοντας την αλλαγή στην εποχή του παρασιτικού καπιταλισμού
Η κρίση του δυτικού χρηματοοικονομικού καπιταλισμού διανύει τώρα τον πέμπτο χρόνο της και έχει οδηγήσει τις προηγμένες φιλελεύθερες κοινωνίες σε οριακό σημείο. Εάν οι κυβερνήσεις συνεχίσουν να είναι το δεξί χέρι του χρηματιστικού κεφαλαίου και οι επίδοξοι πολιτικοί ηγέτες μαζορέτες των χρηματοδοτών τους, ένα καταστροφικό οικονομικό σενάριο δεν θα είναι κάτι το εξωπραγματικό, όπως κάποιοι […] -
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Why Minsky Matters (Part One)
My friend Steve Keen recently presented a “primer” on Hyman Minsky; you can read it here. In his piece, Steve criticized the methodology used by Paul Krugman and argued that Krugman could learn a lot from Minsky. In particular, Krugman’s equilibrium approach and primitive dynamics were contrasted to Minsky’s rich analysis. Finally, Krugman’s model of debt deflation [...] -
Greece: “Trapped in a Dark Endless Tunnel”
The Globe and Mail, March 26, 2012. © Copyright 2012 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved. Remember Greece? The financial crisis there might be dimming in the minds of many investors ever since the euro zone found the necessary money to bail out the country and creditors agreed to a debt restructuring. However, […] -
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The Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty
I’d like to take a moment to give a brief report on some research that my colleagues Ajit Zacharias, Rania Antonopoulous, and I have been working on as a result of collaboration between the Levy Economics Institute and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Service Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (RSCLAC), particularly the [...] -
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Redistribution of Wealth, Foreclosure Style
Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan report on the latest US investment craze: buying up large bundles of foreclosed homes from Fannie Mae and renting them out to take advantage of the hot rental market. Randall Wray is among the critics quoted in the article who contend that, as Goldstein and Ablan put it, “the federal [...]