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BlogRadical Left-Wing Central Banker Gets Increasingly Shrill
This is a great graphic put together by Kevin Drum, who calls it “The Ben Bernanke Congress-ometer” (go read the original post for context): Remember: Ben Bernanke was appointed by George W. Bush. Prior to that he headed Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. For all intents and purposes, he’s a Republican. It’s interesting to note [...] -
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On Sectoral Balances, Power Imbalances, and More
[The following is the text of Senior Scholar Randall Wray’s presentation, delivered October 28, 2011, at the annual conference of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (IMK) in Berlin. This year’s conference was titled “From crisis to growth? The challenge of imbalances, debt, and limited resources.”] It is commonplace to link Neoclassical economics to [...] -
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25th Anniversary Report, 2009–2011
Throughout its 25-year history, the Levy Economics Institute has maintained its commitment to independent thinking and the belief that economics can and should make a profound contribution to improving the human condition. The purpose of all our activities and research is to serve the wider policymaking community in the United States and throughout the world. […] -
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Is the Union Unraveling?
In the LA Times today, Dimitri Papadimitriou writes about the very real danger of seeing the end of economic union in Europe; a union Papadimitriou insists is ultimately worth saving. He quickly sketches out what a serious first step toward a solution might look like (rather than this patchwork of half-measures that is sure to [...] -
The Man Who Saw Through the Euro
Rational Irrationality Blog, The New Yorker, November 2, 2011. © 2012 Condé Nast Digital. All rights reserved. To many Americans, the European debt crisis is a bit like the Asian bird flu of a few years back: a mystery virus that appears from nowhere and threatens to destroy us. To those of us who grew […] -
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Haircut Failure
C. J. Polychroniou delivers his verdict on the recent eurozone “haircut” deal for Greece (that already looks likely to fall apart given yesterday’s news that Papandreou will submit the plan to a sure-to-be-defeated referendum). In this new one-pager, he highlights a number of elements that make the deal destined for failure—even if the referendum were [...] -
One-Pager No. 17
Greece in the Aftermath of the Debt Haircut
It is a well-recognized fact that the Greek economy has been going from bad to worse since the first bailout in May 2010, and a leaked document relating to the bailout talks ahead of last week’s EU summit openly admitted that the policy of expansionary fiscal consolidation had been a blatant failure. So why did […] -
One-Pager No. 17
Η Ελλάδα μετά το κούρεμα χρέους
Είναι καλά αναγνωρισμένο γεγονός ότι, μετά από το πρώτο σχέδιο διάσωσης του Μαίου 2010, η ελληνική οικονομία πηγαίνει από το κακό στο χειρότερο, και η έκθεση της τρόικας που διέρρευσε πριν από την σύνοδο κορυφής της ΕΕ της περασμένης εβδομάδας παραδέχτηκε ανοικτά ότι η συρρίκνωση της επεκτατικής δημοσιονομικής πολιτικής έχει, ως μέτρο, αποτύχει οικτρά. Οπότε, […] -
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GDP growth and U.S. exports
This post provides our latest update of the quarterly figures for the real and nominal GDP of U.S. trading partners (1970q1-2016q4), which were presented a few years ago in a Levy Institute working paper and have now been updated to the second quarter of 2011, with predictions up to 2016 based on the latest IMF [...] -
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Austerity Still Not Expansionary
At Eurointelligence, Rob Parenteau digs into a recently-leaked “Troika” (the IMF, European Central Bank, and European Commission) document that discusses the outlines of a Greek debt restructuring deal. Among the revelations Parenteau extracts from the document is evidence of a growing willingness to concede that fiscal consolidation is not expansionary. As Parenteau comments: In 2009 [...] -
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Money and the Public Purpose: The Modern Money Theory Approach
[The following is the text of my keynote presentation delivered October 20th at “The Capitalist Mode of Power: Past, Present, Future,” a conference that took place at York University in Toronto.] Back in 1997 I was finishing up my book titled Understanding Modern Money and I sent the manuscript to Robert Heilbroner to see if [...]