Care Work as the Work of the Future
Economists despair about the impact of technology on jobs. They underestimate the need for care work, as in services for the young and aged.
Read more...Economists despair about the impact of technology on jobs. They underestimate the need for care work, as in services for the young and aged.
Read more...Why fiscal consolidation, which is neoliberal economists’ pet idea that austerity increases growth, is all wet.
Read more...Does the US business cycle have longer to run?
Read more...Debunking the idea that better education is an adequate remedy for inequality and high unemployment.
Read more...Banks are looking into holding more cash as central banks threaten to drive interest rates even further into negative terrain.
Read more...This post looks at the relationship between the top marginal income tax bracket and growth in real GDP per capita (from NIPA table 7.1) in the subsequent year or years.
Read more...Yves here. This is a very important post, and sadly I’m not providing it with the introduction and commentary it warrants because I am scrambling to get organized to get out of town. By Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Originally published at the Institute […]
Read more...A new World Bank paper looks at the interaction between commodity prices and commodity exporters. It’s a story about hot money.
Read more...More proof that central banks have lost the plot.
Read more...Why worries about falling US productivity are well-founded.
Read more...Austria illustrates that over time, offshoring reduces the skill levels of domestic workers and even organizations.
Read more...More and more experts are taking CalPERS and other public pension funds to task over their barmy return assumptions.
Read more...Clinton’s attacks on Trump distract attention from her 1% serving economic policies and her war-mongering, but Trump isn’t responding effectively.
Read more...It been remarkable to witness the casual way in which central banks have plunged into negative interest rate terrain, based on questionable models. Now that this experiment isn’t working out so well, the response comes troubling close to, “Well, they work in theory, so we just need to do more or wait longer to see […]
Read more...Borrowing to prop up dividends…what could go wrong?
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