Research At SCEPA
Economic Growth, Income Distribution & Climate Change
WORKING PAPER | This paper explores how climate damage affects the long-run evolution of the economy.
Demand Drives Growth All The Way
WORKING PAPER | How does effective demand, productivity growth, income, and wealth distributions influence and constrain the economy?
Economic Growth and Climate Change
WORKING PAPER | This working paper sheds light on the various theories which attempt to explain the relationship between economic growth and climate change.
Wealth Concentration, Income Distribution and Alternatives
WORKING PAPER | Authors use demand-driven models of economic growth and inequality to conclude US household wealth concentration is not likely to decline in response to fiscal interventions alone.
Wage Increases, Transfers, and the Income Distribution
WORKING PAPER | Authors examine large public financial flows that are both progressive and regressive, and construct tax and transfer programs that could be more beneficial for all.
U.S. Size Distribution and the Macroeconomy, 1986-2009
WORKING PAPER | The U.S. national income and product accounts are restated in the form of a social accounting matrix or SAM.
What Policies Will Really Reduce Inequality?
WORKING PAPER | In the United States, there is ongoing debate about how people of different income levels will be affected by policy decisions.
The Social Cost of Carbon Emissions
POLICY NOTE | In principle, the social cost of carbon emissions measures the overall impact of greenhouse gas emissions on societal well-being.
Ecological Macroeconomics
ARTICLE | Ecological economics has not paid sufficient attention to macroeconomic theory and modelling.
Political Economy and General Equilibrium Analysis in an Open Economy
WORKING PAPER | This paper uses a simple two-country Kalecki-Keynes set-up for general equilibrium analysis.
Goodwin Cycles, Distributional Conflict, and Productivity Growth
WORKING PAPER | A combination of an investment-driven macroeconomy and a conflictdetermined income distribution gives cyclical behavior.
Global Warming and Economic Externalities
WORKING PAPER | This paper explains equilibrium concepts appropriate to modeling an un-corrected negative externality, such as climate change.
Productivity and Unemployment in the Short and Long Run
POLICY NOTE | The relationship between productivity growth and unemployment has been debated since the birth of classical economics.