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Can “It” Happen Again? Defining the Battlefield for a Theoretical Revolution in Economics
Feb 27, 2017
As part of our “Experts on Trial Series”, Antonella Palumbo argues for stripping away ‘scientific’ shibboleths that mask social and political choices
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We’ll Always Need Paris
Jun 29, 2017
Faced with rapid cost reductions for clean electricity generation, some commentators suggest that we no longer need the Paris agreement or other policy interventions, because technology alone can solve all problems.
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The Unfairness of Housing Purchases Through Time
Apr 29, 2016
Amid the ongoing research interest in questions of inequality, it is important to examine the question of access to housing — and how that has changed over the decades. The specific question I have sought to answer, here, is whether the real cost (measured against income) of buying the average home has risen.
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"Build Back Better" Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Jan 5, 2021
How the dream of a middle class existence collapsed, first for Blacks, then for more and more white American workers and what the Biden administration could do to retrieve the situation.
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A Reply to Michael Grubb’s Growth-Decarbonization Optimism from Semieniuk et al
Dec 5, 2018
Hope for mitigating climate catastrophe may not be lost, but the scale of political change needed is no cause for optimism
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The Fed and the “Soft Landing” - Policy or Luck?
Sep 30, 2024
The biggest factor in accounting for the strength in the economy is the continuing importance of the wealth effect in sustaining consumption by the affluent.
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ReportThe Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action
Mar 2021
INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation - Interim Report on the Global Response to the Pandemic
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Conference paperInequality and Employment
Apr 2012
“Natural rate theory” has dominated interpretations of economic trends and policy prescriptions over many decades. European-type welfare state institution were claimed to cause a compressed wage distribution that distorts otherwise well functioning labor markets.
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Austerity Caused Brexit
Aug 2, 2018
Places hit hardest by austerity cuts were more likely to vote for UKIP and Leave
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Mainstream Economists Have Been Using a Misleading Inflation Model for 60 Years
Feb 8, 2021
Comment on Paul Krugman’s recent observations on US inflation
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Overdraft Fees, Credit Card Late Fees, and the Lump of Profit Fallacy
Apr 15, 2024
Predetermined profit margins and prices hidden in the back end of a transaction are really just market failures.
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Rejoinder to Flassbeck and Lapavitsas
Jan 28, 2016
It is high time to ditch this myth for at least the following five reasons.
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The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
Mar 26, 2020
Effective and quick federal policy response is critical to create conditions for a quick recovery.
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The Economics of the Affordable Care Act
Jan 17, 2017
Any effort to replace the Affordable Care Act will be confronted by the same structural imbalances in the health care economy that the legislation’s authors faced
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Is Wall Street Doing its Job?
May 20, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work