Research At SCEPA
Is There a Future for Heterodox Economics?
ARTICLE | This paper assesses economics research and teaching frameworks in the United States by examining how knowledge is produced and ranked, the flaws and strengths of heterodox economic theory; and how students are trained, especially for careers in economic policy.
Implications of the Recent Financial Crisis for Innovation
WORKING PAPER | Authors claim there is a justifiable concern about the long-term nature of the economic stagnation experienced today.
Classical and Neoclassical Theories of Offshore Outsourcing
WORKING PAPER | This paper compares neoclassical and classical theories of outsourcing.
Historical Perspective on the Debate over How to Reform Economics
WORKING PAPER | This paper proposes a framework for assessing the depth of methodological debate and apply it to the current methodological debate.
China's Role in High and Low Fashion After Crisis
WORKING PAPER | Structural changes in the macroeconomy, brought about by the economic crisis, have profound implications for the Chinese textile and apparel sector.
Defeminization, Occupational Segmentation and Manufacturing Employment
WORKING PAPER | This paper investigates whether stylized facts relating globalization with the "feminization" of labor still holds, or if de-feminization of manufacturing employment in developing countries has set in.
Errors from the “Proportionality Assumption” in Measuring Offshoring
WORKING PAPER | Offshoring has expanded rapidly in most industrialized countries. Impact on the labor markets in these countries has been the source of enormous debate in both scholarly and popular circles.
Off-Shoring, Insecurity and the Protectionist Threat
POLICY NOTE | Many have made the connection between growing insecurity and globalization, and in particular, the outsourcing of jobs.
Economic Insecurity in the New Wave of Globalization
WORKING PAPER | This paper considers the effects of globalization on economic insecurity.
Shifting Sources and Uses of Profits
WORKING PAPER | This paper explores the interdependence of the processes of the globalization of production and financialization, to link the issue of corporate governance to supply-chain governance.
Exporting Processing Zones, Industrial Upgrading and Economic Development
WORKING PAPER | This paper discusses the expansion of EZPs in spite of growing international political and economic resistance and how they have transformed in the face of this resistance.
New Social Science Imperialism and Knowledge in Contemporary Economics
WORKING PAPER | The author argues that mainstream economics largely abandoned this theorem almost twenty years ago and has subsequently moved through two new methodological phases.
Pricing and Profits Under Globalized Competition
WORKING PAPER | This paper builds on Post Keynesian theory of markup pricing to outline the microfoundations of a theory of US economic hegemony in an age of global production networks.
Dynamic Gains from U.S. Services Offshoring
WORKING PAPER | There is a considerable debate about the welfare effects of offshoring for the U.S.
U.S. Offshoring: Implications for Economic Growth and Income Distribution
WORKING PAPER | This paper assesses the effects of offshoring on income distribution and growth in the US and offers implications for developing countries and Latin America in particular.
State-Market Relations for a Globalized Economy
POLICY NOTE | This paper explores the relationship between government and society in an era of deindustrialization, globalization and rapid innovation.