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?
Maximum Entropy Estimation of Statistical Equilibrium in Economic Models
WORKING PAPER | In this paper we examine the class of models defined by a joint distribution of discrete individual actions and an outcome variable so that the joint distribution is underdetermined.
Lectures on the Foundations of Applied Statistical Inference
WORKING PAPER | This book aims to make explicit exactly what implicit assumptions about the informational state of the observer support frequentist analysis.
Socialist Alternatives to Capitalism I: Marx to Hayek
WORKING PAPER | This paper is the first of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
Socialist Alternatives to Capitalism II: Vienna to Santa Fe
WORKING PAPER | This paper is the second of two following the history of thought on socialist alternatives to capitalism.
Crisis and Theoretical Methods
WORKING PAPER | This talk explores methodological alternatives to macroeconomic analysis based on price-taking Walrasian intertemporal general equilibrium models.
Varieties of Keynesianism
WORKING PAPER | Recent claims from Paul Krugman on the superiority of the IS-LM version of Keynesian economics call for a re-thinking of Keynesian economics.
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.
Rethinking Financial Capitalism and the “Information” Economy
ARTICLE | This talk examines the popular idea that economic growth can continue forever.
Distribution and Capacity
WORKING PAPER | This paper examines the relationship between the distribution of income and capacity utilization in the context of the Kaleckian model of growth and distribution.
Dynamics of Output and Employment in the U.S. Economy
WORKING PAPER | This paper investigates the relationship between employment and real output in the U.S. economy from 1948 to 2010 at the aggregate level and at major industry-grouping level.
The Political Economy of Economic Output and Employment
WORKING PAPER | Service industries for which value added is imputed from incomes, are included in Gross Domestic Product, potentially distorting measures of recession and recovery.
Global Warming and Economic Externalities
WORKING PAPER | This paper explains equilibrium concepts appropriate to modeling an un-corrected negative externality, such as climate change.
The Economic Fundamentals of Global Warming
ARTICLE | The costs of greenhouse gas mitigation can be shifted to future generations by reducing current investment, rather than by reducing current standards of living.