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The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
December 2009 (with John Schmitt)

The Federal Reserve Must Counteract Asset Bubbles
November 2009 (with Jane D'Arista and Gerald Epstein)

Issues in Trade and Protectionism
November 2009

Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
October 2009

Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid
October 2009 (with Hye Jin Rho)

The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
September 2009 (with Travis McArthur )

CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
August 2009

Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
August 2009 (with Danilo Pelletiere and Hye Jin Rho)

The Gains from Right to Rent
July 2009 (with Hye Jin Rho)

The Right to Rent Plan
July 2009

The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
May 2009 (with Rivka Deutsch)

Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off
March 2009

The AIG Saga: A Brief Primer
March 2009

Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982?
March 2009 (with John Schmitt)

The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus
March 2009

Investment Bank Welfare?
March 2009 (with Matt Sherman)

The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble
February 2009 (with David Rosnick)

Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise?
January 2009

The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax
December 2008

The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households
December 2008 (with Ben Zipperer )

The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down
December 2008

The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity (with Hye Jin Rho and Danilo Pelletiere)
October 2008

IOUSA Not OK
October 2008 (with David Rosnick)

The Credit Squeeze Scare
October 2008

Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices
September 2008 (with Matthew Sherman)

Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
July 2008 (with Eileen Appelbaum and John Schmitt)

The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth
July 2008 (with David Rosnick)

Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices
June 2008 (with Nichole Szembrot)

The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers

June 2008 (with David Rosnick)

The Housing Bubble and the Financial Crisis

May 2008

Ownership, Rental Costs and the Prospects of Building Home Equity

May 2008 (with Hye Jin Rho and Danilo Pelletiere)

The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities

April 2008 (with Hye Jin Rho and Danilo Pelletiere)

The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs

March 2008

Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts

March 2008

Subprime Borrowers Deserve an Own to Rent Transition
January 2008

What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
January 2008, (with John Schmitt)

The Need for an Economic Stimulus Package

January 2008 (with Eileen Appelbaum and John Schmitt)

Trade and Inequality: The Role of Economists (Conference Presentation)

January 2008

Globalization: It Doesn't Just Happen (Conference Presentation)

November 2007

Changes in the Cost of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, 2007-2008

November 2007 (with Joshua Lanier)

Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets

August 2007

"Usable Productivity" Growth in the U.S.: An International Comparison, 1980-2005

June 2007 (with David Rosnick)

The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending
May 2007

A Strategy for Balanced Trade and Economic Revitalization
May 2007 (with Eileen Appelbaum)

The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show
April 2007

Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit
March 2007

Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem?
March 2007

Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth
February 2007

2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
February 2007

The Causes of Economic Hardship for the Middle Class (Testimony)
January 31, 2007

Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System
December 2006

Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007
November 2006

Election 06: What Will Change in the Economy?
November 8, 2006

Increasing Inequality in the United States
November 2006

A Note on Distribution and Growth
October 2006

Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union
September 2006 (with John Schmitt)

The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey
August 2006 (with John Schmitt)

The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs
August 2006

Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary
July 2006

Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective
July 2006 (with David R. Howell, Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt)

Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy
July 2006

Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
June 2006

Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey (CPS)
February 2006 (with John Schmitt)

The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan
January 2006

Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics
November 2005

Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke?: The Evidence for a Housing Bubble
November 2005 (with David Rosnick)

Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development
October 2005

Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs?
October 2005

Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress
September 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick)

Is There a Housing Bubble?
September 2005 (with David Rosnick)

Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century
September 2005

Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina
September 2005

Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery?: Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st C. August 2005 (with Heather Boushey and David Rosnick)

The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet
July 2005

The Reform of Intellectual Property
July 2005

Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
June 2005

Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation"
May 2005 (with David Rosnick)

Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000 May 2005 (with John Schmitt)

The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits
May 2005

Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs
April 2005

The Social Security Shortfall and the National Defense Shortfall
April 2005

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs
March 2005 (with David Rosnick)

Basic Facts on Social Security and Proposed Benefit Cuts/Privatization
March 2005 (with David Rosnick)

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
March 2005

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean, and How It Would Be Done
March 2005

Empty Promises: The Benefits to African American Men of Private Accounts
February 2005

Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections
January 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low Income Families
January 2005

Poor Numbers: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty
November 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick)

The Benefits to State Governments from the Free Market Drug Act
November 2004

The No Economist/Policy Analyst Left Behind Test for Social Security
November 2004

Getting Mexico to Grow With NAFTA: The World Bank's Analysis
October 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick)

Going Down With the Dollar: The Cost to Developing Countries of a Declining Dollar
September 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick)

Insuring the Uninsured: The Gains From Reducing Waste
September 2004

Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues?
September 2004

Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the Empirical Case for Deregulation
September 2004 (with Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmitt)

Dangerous Trends: The Growth of Debt in the U.S. Economy
September 2004

Too Much Bubbly at the Fed?
July 2004

Applying Economics to Economists: Good Governance at the International Financial Institutions
July 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Plunging Employment: Blame Mom?
June 2004 (with Heather Boushey)

Medicare Choice Plus, the Answer to the Long-Term Deficit Problem
March 2004

NAFTA at Ten: The Recount
March 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick)

The Current Account Deficit and the Budget Deficit: Is $600 Billion Missing?
February 2004

Fool's Gold: Projections of the U.S. Import Market
January 2004 (with Mark Weisbrot)

The Housing Bubble in New England
January 2004

Still a Pain: The Cost of Prescription Drugs to Seniors With the Medicare Drug Benefit
December 2003

The Artistic Freedom Voucher: Internet Age Alternative to Copyrights
November 2003

Labor Market Protections and Unemployment: Does the IMF Have a Case?
November 2003 (with John Schmitt)

An Analysis of The Harvard Center’s Case Against the Housing Bubble
October 2003

Too Sunny In Latin America? The IMF’s Overly Optimistic Growth Projections and Their Consequences
September 2003 (with David Rosnick)

The Forty-Four Trillion Dollar Deficit Scare
September 2003 (with David Rosnick)

Professional Protectionists: The Gains From Free Trade in Highly Paid Professional Services
September 2003

The Real Budget and the Real Budget Deficit
August 2003 (with David Rosnick)

Homeownership in a Bubble: The Fast Path to Poverty
August 2003 (with Simone Baribeau)

False Promises on Trade
July 2003 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Reflections on Economic Reporting: Seven Years of the Economic Reporting Review
June 2003

World Bank Involvement in the Privitisation of Public Pension Systems in Dev. & Transition Countries
May 2003 (with Debayani Kar)

George W. Bush's America vs. "Old Europe" on Jobs
April 2003 (with Simone Baribeau)

Growing Pain: The Expense of Drugs for the Elderly
February 2003 (with John Schmitt)

The Dividend Tax Break: Taxing Logic
January 2003

The Economic Costs of a War in Iraq: The Negative Scenario
December 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Dangerous Minds: The Track Record of Economic and Financial Analysts
December 2002

The Housing Affordability Index: A Case of Economic Malpractice
December 2002

Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Analysis of Cross-Country Evidence
November 2002 (with Andrew Glyn, David Howell and John Schmitt)

Promoting Good Ideas on Drugs: Are Patents the Best Way?
October 2002 (with Noriko Chatani)

Paying the Bills in Brazil: Does the IMF Math Add Up
September 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is it Real or Is it Another Bubble
August 2002

Defined Contributions from Workers, Guaranteed Benefits for Bankers: The World Bank's Approach...
July 2002 (with Debayani Kar)

The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market
July 2002

The Relative Impact of Trade Liberalization on Developing Countries
June 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Business Week Restates the Nineties
April 2002

The Role of Social Security Privitization in Argentina's Economic Crisis
April 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

When 'Good Parents' Go Bad: The IMF in Argentina
April 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Alan Greenspan and the ECB: Different Policies, Different Results
February 2002

The Cost of the War on Terrorism and the Cost of Social Security
February 2002

What Happened to Argentina
January 2002 (with Mark Weisbrot)

The New Economy Recession: Economic Scorecard 2001
December 2001

Stock Returns for Dummies
December 2001

Money for Nothing: The Increasing Cost of Foreign Reserve Holdings to Developing Nations
November 2001 (with Karl Walentin)

The New Economy Goes Bust: What the Record Shows
October 2001

Will New Trade Gains Make Us Rich? An Assessment of the Prospective Gains from New Trade Agreements October 2001 (with Mark Weisbrot)

Hot Air Over the Artic? An Assessment of the WEFA Study on the Economic Impact of ANWR Oil Drilling September 2001

The World Bank's Attack on Social Security
August 2001

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund Bonds: Winners and Losers
July 2001

The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: 20 Years of Diminished Progress
July 2001

Effective Currency Transactions Taxes: The Need to Tax Derivatives
July 2001

Growth May Be Good for the Poor, But are IMF and World Bank Policies Good for Growth?
May 2001 (with Mark Weisbrot, Robert Naiman, and Gila Neta)

Vaccine Buying Pools: Is More Protectionism the Best Route?
May 2001

Gaining with Trade?
March 2001

NAIRU: Dangerous Dogma at the Fed
December 2000

The Costs of the Stock Market Bubble
November 2000

Diverting the Old Age Crisis: International Projections of Living Standards in the 21st C.
July 2000

The Administrative Costs of the Bush and Gore Proposals for Individual Accounts
July 2000

Gov. Bush's Individual Account Proposal
June 2000

Double Bubble: The Implications of the Over-Valuation of the Stock Market and the Dollar
June 2000

Taxing Financial Speculation: Shifting the Tax Burden from Wages to Wagers
February 2000

Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate
June 1999

 

CV

The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2008

Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts
, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2008

What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2008 (with John Schmitt).

The Need for an Economic Stimulus Plan, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2008 (with Eileen Appelbaum and John Schmitt).

Changes in the Cost of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, 2007-2008, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2007.

Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2007.

"Usable Productivity" Growth in the U.S.: An International Comparison, 1980-2005, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2007 (with David Rosnick).


The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending
, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2007

The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2007

Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2007

Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem?, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2007

Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2007

2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2007

The Causes of Economic Hardship for the Middle Class, Washington, DC: Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, US Congress, January 31, 2007

Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2006

Recession Looms for U.S. Economy in 2007, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2006

A Note on Distribution and Growth, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2006

Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Rising Employment Rates in the European Union, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2006 (with John Schmitt).

The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2006 (with John Schmitt).

The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2006.

Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2006.

Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary by Dean Baker, July 2006

Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence, July 2006 (with David R. Howell, Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt).

Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2006

Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2006 (with John Schmitt).

The Savings From and Efficient Medicare Drug Plan, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2006.

Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke?: The Evidence for a Housing Bubble, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2005 (with David Rosnick).

Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2005.

Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2005.

Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2005.

Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2005 (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick). En español

Is There a Housing Bubble? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2005 (with David Rosnick).

Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery?: Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2005 (with Heather Boushey and David Rosnick).

The Reform of Intellectual Property, PAE review, iss. 32, 5 July 2005.

The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research,  July 2005.

Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2005.

Social Security Rates of Return with 'Progressive Indexation', (with David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2005.

The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2005.

Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2005.

The Social Security Shortfall and the National Defense Shortfall, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2005.

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs, (with David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2005.

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005.

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean, and How It Would Be Done, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005.

Empty Promises: The Benefits to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2005.

Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2005.

Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low Income Families, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2005.

The Benefits to State Governments from the Free Market Drug Act, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2004.

Bad Times: The Impact of Changes in Work Schedules on Productivity Growth (with John Schmitt), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2004.

Getting Mexico to Grow With NAFTA: The World Bank's Analysis, (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2004.

Going Down With the Dollar: The Cost to Developing Countries of a Declining Dollar, (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2004.

Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2004.

Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the Empirical Case for Deregulation, (with Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmitt), New York, NY: Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) Working Paper 2004-4, September 2004. Abstract

Insuring the Uninsured: The Gains From Reducing Waste, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2004.

Dangerous Trends: The Growth of Debt in the U.S. Economy, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2004.

Too Much Bubbly at the Fed?: The New York Federal Reserve Board's Analysis of the Run-Up in Home Prices, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2004.

Applying Economics to Economists: Good Governance at the International Financial Institutions, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2004.

Plunging Employment: Blame Mom? (with Heather Boushey), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2004.

Medicare Choice Plus, the Answer to the Long-Term Deficit Problem, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2004.

NAFTA at Ten: The Recount, (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2004.

The Current Account Deficit and the Budget Deficit: Is $600 Billion Missing? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2004.

Fool's Gold: Projections of the U.S. Import Market, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2004.

The Housing Bubble in New England, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2004.

Too Sunny In Latin America? The IMF's Overly Optimistic Growth Projections and Their Consequences, (with David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2003.

The Forty-Four Trillion Dollar Deficit Scare, (with David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2003.

Professional Protectionists: The Gains From Free Trade in Highly Paid Professional Services, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2003.

The Real Budget and the Real Budget Deficit (with David Rosnick), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2003.

Homeownership in a Bubble: The Fast Path to Poverty? (with Simone Baribeau), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2003.

When Rivers Flow Upstream: International Capital Movements in the Era of Globalization (with Monique Morrissey), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2003.

Growing Pain: The Expense of Drugs for the Elderly, (with John Schmitt), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2003.

The Economic Costs of a War in Iraq: The Negative Scenario, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2002.

Dangerous Minds: The Track Record of Economic and Financial Analysts, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2002.

The Housing Affordability Index: A Case of Economic Malpractice, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2002.

Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Analysis of Cross-Country Evidence, (with Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmitt), Washington, DC: Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) Working Paper 2002-17, November 2002.

Promoting Good Ideas on Drugs: Are Patents the Best Way? The Relative Efficiency of Patent and Public Support for Bio-Medical Research, (with Noriko Chatani), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2002.

Paying the Bills in Brazil: Does the I.M.F. Math Add Up? (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2002.

The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2002.

The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2002.

Defined Contributions from Workers, Guaranteed Benefits for Bankers: The World Bank's Approach to Social Security Reform, (with Debayani Kar), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2002.

The Relative Impact of Trade Liberalization on Developing Countries, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, D.C.: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2002.

The Role of Social Security Privatization in Argentina's Economic Crisis, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2002.

Alan Greenspan and the ECB: Different Policies, Different Results, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2002.

The Cost of the War on Terrorism and the Cost of Social Security, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2002.

What Happened to Argentina? (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 31, 2002.

The New Economy Recession: Economic Scorecard 2001, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2001.

Stock Returns for Dummies, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2001.

Money for Nothing: The Increasing Cost of Foreign Reserve Holdings to Developing Nations, (with Karl Walentin), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2001.

The New Economy Goes Bust: What the Record Shows, Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2001.

Will New Trade Gains Make Us Rich? An Assessment of the Prospective Gains from New Trade Agreements, (with Mark Weisbrot), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2001.

Hot Air Over the Arctic? An Assessment of the WEFA Study of the Economic Impact of Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2001.

The World Bank's Attack on Social Security, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2001.

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: Winners and Losers, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2001.

The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress, (with Mark Weisbrot, Egor Kraev, and Judy Chen), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2001.

Growth May Be Good for the Poor - But are IMF and World Bank Policies Good for Growth? A Closer Look at the World Bank's Recent Defense of Its Policies (with Mark Weisbrot, Robert Naiman, and Gila Neta), Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 2001.

Effective Currency Transactions Taxes: The Need to Tax Derivatives, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2001.

Gaining With Trade? Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2001.

The Costs of the Stock Market Bubble, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November, 2000.

Diverting the Old Age Crisis: International Projections of Living Standards in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2000.

Pensions for the 21st Century. New York: Century Foundation, 2000.

The Administrative Costs of the Bush and Gore Proposals for Individual Accounts, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 2000.

NAIRU: Dangerous Dogma at the Federal Reserve Board, Philamont, VA: Financial Markets Center, 2000.

The Feasibility of a Unilateral Speculation Tax in the United States, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2000.

Governor Bush's Individual Account Proposal: A Reassessment Using Realistic Stock Return Project, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2000.

Double Bubble: The Implications of the Over-Valuation of the Stock Market and the Dollar, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2000.

Taxing Financial Speculation: Shifting the Tax Burden From Wages to Wagers, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, February 2000.

Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 1999.

Longterm Productivity Projections, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 1999.

Cruel Statistics: The Impact of Changes in the Consumer Price Index on Older Women, Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 1999.

The Insurance Value of Social Security, New York: The Century Foundation, 1999.

Saving Social Security In Three Steps, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 1998.

Defusing the Baby Boomer Time Bomb: Projections of Income for the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, June 1998.

The Public Investment Deficit, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. February 1998.

Savings Social Security With Stocks: The Promises Don't Add Up, Twentieth Century Fund, 1997.

Privatizing Social Security: The Wall St. Fix, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. February 1996.

Getting Prices Right: A Methodologically Consistent Consumer Price Index, 1953-1994, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. April 1996.

Trends in Corporate Profitability: Getting More for Less?, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. February 1996.

Profits Up, Wages Down: Worker Losses Yield Big Gains for Business, with Lawrence Mishel. Economic Policy Institute. September, 1995.

Robbing the Cradle?: A Critical Assessment of Generational Accounting, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. July, 1995.

Revising the Consumer Price Index: Correcting Bias, or Biased Corrections?, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. April 1995.

The Impact of the Clinton Health Plan on Jobs, Investment, Wages, Productivity, and Exports, (with Edie Rasell and Kainan Tang). Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. November, 1993.

Rapid Deficit Reduction: The Fast Path to Slow Growth, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. October, 1993.

Employment Multipliers in the U.S. Economy, (with Thea Lee). Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute. May 1993.

 

Books

Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy. PoliPoint Press, 2009

The United States Since 1980. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

The Conservative Nanny State. Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2006.

The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein).  Economic Policy Institute, 2003.

Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot). University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy. Edited with Jerry Epstein and Bob Pollin, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index. M.E. Sharpe Press, 1997. (Editor; Selected for 1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Book List).

 

Book Chapters

"From Financial Crisis to Opportunity," in Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2009.

"The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress," (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick), in Vicente Navarro (ed.), Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc, 2007.

"The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress," (with Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick), in Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality, Jomo K.S. with Jacques Baudot, eds. London, UK: Zed Books, 2007.

"Asset Returns and Economic Growth," (with Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman), in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1:2005, William C. Brainard and George L. Perry, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

"Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment," (with Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmidt), in Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy, Oxford University Press, 2004.

"Macro Policy-Making in the New Economy," in the New Economy Handbook, edited by Derek Jones, Academic Press, 2003.

"What's New In the Nineties: An Assessment of the Nineties Business Cycle." In Alternative Perspectives on the Economy, edited by Jeffrey Madrick, New York: Century Foundation, 2000.

"’The NAIRU: Is it a Real Constraint?’ - An analysis of the evidence for the existence of a non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment across the OECD." In Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy. Dean Baker, Jerry Epstein, and Bob Pollin, eds. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

"Social Security: A New Deal Program for the Twenty First Century" in Reclaiming Broadly Shared Prosperity, edited by Ray Marshall, M.E. Sharpe Press, 1999.

"Conceptual and Accounting Issues in the Analysis of Saving, Investment, and Macroeconomic Activity," in The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance and Investment, edited by Robert Pollin, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

"Social Security: Don't Mess With Success." in Reclaiming Prosperity: A Blueprint for Progressive Economic Reform, edited by Todd Schafer and Jeff Faux. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.

Journal Articles

"Getting More for Less: The Not-So-Obvious Benefits of Publicly Funded Trials for New Drugs." Milken Institute Review, 10.3 (2008): pp 46-53.

"Trade and Inequality: The Role of Economists." Real-World Economics Review, (March 15, 2008): pp 23-32. 

"Subprime Borrowers Deserve an Own to Rent Transition." The Economists' Voice, 5.1, Article 5.

"Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence." Capitalism and Society, 2.1., with David R. Howell, Andrew Glyn, and John Schmitt.

"The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble." Economists' Voice, 3.4 (March 2006).

"The Numbers Racket." Columbia Journalism Review, 43.6 (March/April 2005): p 10.

"Bubble Bath: Will a Crashing Housing Market Sink Low-Income Homebuyers?"  Journal of Housing and Community Development, 61.5 (September/October 2004): p 6, with Marya Murray Díaz.

"Capital Movements How Harmful for Development?" NACLA Report on the Americas, 38.2 (September/October 2004): p 47, with Todd Tucker.

"Patent Fiction." Health Letter, 20.6 (June 2004): p 1.

"Region Stands Vulnerable to Housing Bubble." New Hampshire Business Review, 26.3 (February 2004): p B1.

"Security Transactions Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets." Political Economy Research Institute, Eastern Economic Review (October 2003), with Robert Pollin and Marc Schaberg.

"A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises." Challenge, 46.5 (September/October 2003): p 76.

"The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble." Challenge, 45.6 (November/December 2002): p 93.

"The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market." Pension Benefits, 11.9 (September 2002): p 11.

"Business Week Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly?" Challenge, 45.4 (July/August 2002): p 122.

"Is the New Economy Wearing Out?" Challenge, 45.1 (January/February 2001): p 117.

"Medicines and the New Economics Environment." Journal of Public Health Policy: 23.2 (2002): p 245.

"Undermining Security: A Warning Against Social Security Privatization." Multinational Monitor: 23.1-2 (January/February 2002): p 28.

"Projections of Income for the 21st Century." International Journal of Health Services (Summer 2001).

"Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes?" Challenge, 44.3 (May/June 2001): p 90.

"The Supply-Side Effect of a Stock Market Crash." Challenge, 43.5 (September/October 2000): p 107.

"The Macroeconomic Roots of High European Unemployment." WSI Mitteilungen (Fall 1999), with John Schmitt.

"Healthy Stock Returns in a Slow-Growing Economy?" Challenge, 42.3 (May/June 1999): p 6.

"Saving Social Security in Three Steps: The Biggest Risk Comes from ‘Fixing’ Social Security by Cutting Benefits and Privatizing a Basically Sound Program." Working USA: 2.5 (February 28, 1999): p 9.

"The Computer-Driven Productivity Boom." Challenge: 41.6 (November/December 1998): p 6.

"Is it Time to Reform Social Security?" Southern Economic Journal: 65.2 (October 1998): p 368.

"Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism." Challenge: 41.5 (September/October 1998): p 124.

"The New Economy Does Not Lurk in the Statistical Discrepancy?" Challenge: 41.3 (May-June 1998).

"State of the Union: The Boskin Commission After One Year." Challenge: 41.2 (March/April 1998): p 6.

"The Assumptions Are Too Pessimistic." Challenge: 39.6 (November/December 1996): p 31.

"The Overstated Consumer Price Index: What If It's True?" Challenge: 39.5 (September/October 1996): p 26.

"The Vietnam War and the Political Economy of Full Employment." Challenge: 39.3 (May/June 1996): p 35, with Robert Pollin and Elizabeth Zahrt.

"The Logic of Contested Exchange." Journal of Economic Issues: 28.4 (December 1994): pp 1091-1114, with Mark Weisbrot.

"The Myth of the Investment Led Recovery." Challenge: 37.6 (November/December 1994): p 26.

"The Clinton Budget Package: Putting Deficit Reduction First?" Challenge: 36.3 (May/June 1993): p 4, with Todd Schafer.

"The Right to Income." Journal of Income Distribution: 2.1 (Summer 1992): pp 59-89.

 

Magazine Articles

"Bush’s Numbers Racket." American Prospect: 16.2, February 2005: p A6.

"Numbers Before Politics." In These Times: April 26, 2005.

"Bubble Trouble." Dollars & Sense, January/February 2005: p 23.

"Anti-Social Security." The Nation: 279.22, December 27, 2004: p 5.

"Bush Begins Second Term by Attacking Social Security." In These Times: December 6, 2004.

"Bush's House of Cards." The Nation Online: August 9, 2004.

"Exercise Fiscal Responsibility." In These Times: July 14, 2004, with Heather Boushey.

"The Housing Bubble: A Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities?" Shelterforce: 135, May/June 2004.

"Fair Trade and Farm Subsidies: How Big a Deal? Two Views." Dollars & Sense: November/December 2003: p 19, with Gawain Kripke and Mark Weisbrot.

"Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go from Bad to Worse." In These Times, May 9, 2003.

"Taking One from the Bush Team." Dollars & Sense: November/December 2002: p 17, with Adria Scharf.

"Anti-Social Behavior: How the Bush Administration Kept Its Social Security Report Safe from Terrorists." American Prospect Online: April 2, 2002.

"Full Employment at Risk." American Prospect: 12.19, November 5, 2001: p 30, with Jared Bernstein.

"From New Economy to War Economy." Dollars & Sense: November/December 2001: p 7.

"Drug Prices in Crisis: The Case against Protectionism." Dollars & Sense: May/Jun 2001, p 21.

"Patent Medicine." American Prospect: 12.2, January 29, 2001: p 13.

"After the Fall: The Implications of a Stock Market Crash." American Prospect: 11.18, August 14, 2000: p 13.

"Energy Insurance" American Prospect: 11.17, July 31, 2000: p 18, with Jim Barrett.

"Holes in the 'New Economy.'" Dissent: 47.3, Summer 2000: p 111.

"Social Security: The Phony Crisis." The Economist: 355.8166, April 15, 2000: p Insert, with Mark Weisbrot.

"The New Economy: A Millenial Myth." Dollars and Sense: March/April 2000: p 14.

"False Poverty: The Nation Can Afford To Care For Its Elderly." Aging Today: March-April, 2000.

"The Real Drug Crisis." In These Times: October 1999.

"Too Much of the Bubbly on Wall Street." Dollars and Sense: July/August 1999: p 10.

"Stocking Up the Trust Fund." American Prospect: March/April 1999.

"Two Cheers for Clinton's Social Security Plan." American Prospect: May/Jun 1999: p 8.

"Bull Market Keyensianism." American Prospect: 10.42, January/February 1999: p 78.

"The Lessons of the Nineties Recovery." American Prospect: November-December 1998.

"Nine Misconceptions about Social Security." Atlantic Monthly: 282.1, July 1998: p 34.

"Invest It." American Prospect: May/Jun 1998: p 83.

"The Inflated Case against the CPI." American Prospect: Winter 1996: p 86.

"Primer: The ‘Profits Equals Investment’ Scam." Dollars & Sense: September 1995: p 34.

"Depressing Our Way to Recovery." American Prospect: Winter 1994: pp 110-115.

"Generations at War: The Real Problems with Social Security." Dollars and Sense: 161, November 1990: pp 15-19.

 

Book Reviews

"False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare Is the Campaign to ‘Save’ Them," Journal of Public Health Policy: 24.1 (2003): p 69.

 


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