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Outside the Bubble, Public Investment Is Disappearing
These two stories need to get together in a room and talk: 1) Demand for US debt is really high. 2) Government (net) investment is at a 40-year low. Notice that neither of these facts plays any noticeable role in the policy debates that dominate the US political scene. There we’re offered a choice of [...]
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Review: Some Economic Ideas to Think About in 2012
In 2009, the Institute released some careful research on the micro-level effects of the recovery act (one example is at this link). That work helps to answer questions about how the benefits of specific stimulus packages will be spread out among different individuals, and households, and demographic groups in the United States. Increasingly, these and [...]
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Wray: World Discovers MMT
Japan is the champion nation in terms of budget deficits and government debt relative to GDP. Many have long argued (wrongly) that this is because holders happen to have addresses in Japan. Nonsense. A sovereign government that issues its own currency makes interest payments on its debt in exactly the same manner whether the holder [...]
Working Paper No. 701
Women, Schooling, and Marriage in Rural Philippines
Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino […]
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A Direct Job Creation Program for Greece
The Levy Institute, with underwriting from the Labour Institute of the Greek General Confederation of Workers, has helped design and implement a program of direct job creation throughout Greece. Two-year projects, financed using European Structural Funds, have already begun. This report by Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos, President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Research Analyst Taun Toay [...]
Working Paper No. 700
Is There Room for Bulls, Bears, and States in the Circuit?
This paper takes off from Jan Kregel’s paper “Shylock and Hamlet, or Are There Bulls and Bears in the Circuit?” (1986), which aimed to remedy shortcomings in most expositions of the “circuit approach.” While some “circuitistes” have rejected John Maynard Keynes’s liquidity preference theory, Kregel argued that such rejection leaves the relation between money and […]
Working Paper No. 699
Trade and Payments Theory in a Financialized Economy
Ricardian trade theory was based on the cost of labor at a time when grain and other consumer goods accounted for most subsistence spending. But today’s budgets are dominated by payments to the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector and to newly privatized monopolies. This has made FIRE the determining factor in trade competitiveness. […]
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Summary Winter 2012
The Summary updates current Levy Institute research, with synopses of new publications, accounts of professional presentations by the research staff, and an overview of Levy Institute events. In this issue, papers include a new Strategic Analysis that justifies fears of prolonged stagnation and flat employment, proposals to resolve problems in the eurozone, recommendations for avoiding […]
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Without Increased Fiscal Stimulus, US Economic Growth Will Remain Weak and Unemployment High, New Levy Study Says
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Arestis on the EU’s New Fiscal Compact
Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer have a guest post at Triple Crisis that critiques the latest proposal for a new fiscal compact in the EU (essentially an SGP with more automatic sanctions for those who surpass the 3 percent of GDP budget deficit limit and the annual structural deficit limit of 0.5 percent of GDP). [...]
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New MBA in Sustainability
BARD COLLEGE TO LAUNCH INNOVATIVE MBA IN SUSTAINABILITY Now Enrolling Students for Fall 2012 in New York City www.bard.edu/mb ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Responding to a revolution in business strategy and to rising student demand, Bard College announces the creation of a new Master of Business Administration in Sustainability Program. Based in New York City, the [...]
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More on the Bailout of the Banking System
J. Andrew Felkerson writes at AlterNet about the study he authored detailing the Federal Reserve’s bailout of financial institutions over the course of the latest crisis. He explains some of the reasoning behind his study’s methodology, particularly with respect to his use of a cumulative measure of loans and asset purchases (the other two measures [...]