Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed
Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
Read more...A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...A review of major institutional and political developments that created modern Europe.
Read more...An overview of the protests in Chile.
Read more...Even if you beleve that taxes fund federal spending, a new study shows it is not necessary to raise taxes to pay for Medicare for All.
Read more...A brief reminder of the IMF record of failure and harm.
Read more...Capital and Ideology is a quantitative history of inequality, a largely noneconomic theory of social stratification, an investigation into the social roots of current populism, and a political manifesto for the European left.
Read more...There are conditions under which governments can create money—or debt—without fear of inflation or excessive debt burdens. There are other conditions under which debt or money creation can lead to inflation and balance sheet problems.
Read more...Is praise of negative real interest rates in Europe making a virtue out of (mis)perceived necessity?
Read more...As European borrowers choke on debts they can’t repay, due to a significant degree to austerity-induced weak economies, financial profiteers swoop in to take advantage of the distress.
Read more...There are better ways to skin fat cats than Warren’s wealth tax.
Read more...The debate over secular stagnation continues, yet orthodox economists are loath to admit that the needed fix is more demand, which means more government spending.
Read more...“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
Read more...Larry Summers, a barometer of leading edge conventional wisdom, questions Keynesianism as a distortion of Keynes and for its overconfidence in monetary policy.
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