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This book traces the evolution of Charles P. Kindleberger’s thinking in the context of a ‘key-currency’ approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II.
Article | Macroeconomics, Private Debt
A Nobel Award for the Wrong Model
Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort
By Peter Bofinger and Thomas Haas
Article | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics
How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity
Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits.
By Lynn Parramore and Hal Singer
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A Nobel Award for the Wrong Model
By Peter Bofinger and Thomas Haas
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Bernanke v. Kindleberger: Which Credit Channel?
In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.
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How to Unf★ck America
Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged.
Featuring Dean Baker
Working Paper | Environment
Navigating the Crises in European Energy
Price Inflation, Marginal Cost Pricing, and Principles for Electricity Market Redesign in an Era of Low-Carbon Transition
Working Paper | Development
China’s Development Path: Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
By Yin Li and William Lazonick
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.
By Rosemary Batt, Eileen Appelbaum, and Tamar Katz
Working Paper | Environment, Finance, Macroeconomics
Monetary Policy for the Climate? A Money View Perspective on Green Central Banking
Central banks can encourage climate-friendly investments by offering financial institutions favorable haircuts on green collateral
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Permanent Scars: The Effects of Wages on Productivity
A persistent regime of low wages may determine very negative long-term consequences on the economy.
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Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.3 -The Path for India's Climate Transition
The 4th Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) is a virtual, multi-capsule conference series that aims to bring together legal, economic and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
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The Paralysis From Above: COP26 and Beyond for the Developing World
For several weeks, representatives of governments across the globe gathered in Glasgow to discuss plans for climate mitigation and adaptation. But the meetings were dominated by representatives of the world’s most advanced economies, often to the detriment of the places where the majority of the world’s population lives: the developing world.
