WORKING PAPER | This paper proposes that high savings out of top incomes contributed to the steady wealth income ratio amongst US households.

RELAB ARTICLE | Better designed retirement savings incentives that target lower-income workers would make a real difference in workers’ retirement preparedness.

BRIEF | SCEPA's Teresa Ghilarducci and the Center for American Progress' Christian Weller recommend improving retirement savings incentives.

BRIEF | Economic growth can be a rising tide to lift all boats, so we are told. Advocates for cutting Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age imply that economic growth will create jobs for older workers left to work longer.

WORKING PAPER | We raise some basic conceptual questions regarding global development goals: Why have them at all? What function, if any, might they serve, and under what conditions could they do so successfully?

BRIEF | The Department of Labor today announced the September unemployment rate for workers between the ages of 55-64 was 3.6%.

WORKING PAPER | The shale industry’s poor market position is due to both external market forces and questionable business practices.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT | SCEPA Economist Willi Semmler published a new book, Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 3…

WORKING PAPER | This paper contributes to the theory of the time-varying multiplier.

WORKING PAPER | Path dependency is defined, and three different specific concepts of path dependency – cumulative causation, lock in, and hysteresis – are analyzed.

WORKING PAPER | This paper tests the conventional story that since the birth of the discipline of sociology, the economic orientation of the discipline has peaked twice: 1890-1920 and sometime after 1985.

BRIEF | The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a slight increase for the unemployment rate for older workers (aged 55 and over) from 3.7% to 3.8% in August.

WORKING PAPER | The essential insight advanced in this paper is that the claim that inflation can impair growth makes most sense in the context of a monetary production economy.

WORKING PAPER | This paper shows how Keynes-Kalecki Structuralist models might benefit from agent-based microfoundations without sacrificing traditional macroeconomic themes.

BRIEF | Presidential candidate Chris Christie used the GOP presidential debate to repeat his call to cut Social Security benefits by increasing the retirement age.

WORKING PAPER | A methodological inconsistency arises from presenting macroeconomic arguments formally and microeconomic arguments verbally.

WORKING PAPER | The question addressed in this paper is: can monetary policy succeed in stabilizing the economy even when the policy model on which it is predicated is mis-specified?

WORKING PAPER | This paper explains the Joan Robinson's abandonment of discussing exploitation in The Accumulation of Capital.

WORKING PAPER | The framing of the redevelopment of Manhattan's Hudson Yards as a self-financed project hides the public trade-offs.

WORKING PAPER | This working paper builds on Farjoun and Machover's probabilistic approach to understand the distribution of firm level profit rates.