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Lance Taylor

  • Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, New School for Social Research
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Macroeconomic stabilization and adjustment in developing and transition economies; reconstruction of macroeconomic theory.

Lance Taylor received a B.S. degree with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1968. He has been a professor in the economics departments of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other research institutions. He is currently the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation at the New School for Social Research. He has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory. His most recent book is Maynard’s Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Economics.

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Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT

Article By Lance Taylor | Apr 30, 2019

Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.

A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Semieniuk et al

Article By Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai | Dec 5, 2018

Hope for mitigating climate catastrophe may not be lost, but the scale of political change needed is no cause for optimism

The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy

Article By Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai | Dec 5, 2018

The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action is needed

Market Power, Low Productivity, and Lagging Wages: The Real Drivers

Article By Lance Taylor | Aug 23, 2018

To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”

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Lance Taylor on Growth, Distribution, and the Future of Capitalism

Video Featuring Lance Taylor | May 1, 2019

Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, delivers the annual Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism.

Vox Features INET Climate Research

News Dec 31, 2018

Vox features INET’s package of climate research

The Intercept Features INET Climate Research

News Dec 5, 2018

The Intercept highlights INET research from Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm and Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai

Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.