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1996 - 1999 Archive
| The Macroeconomic Roots of High European Unemployment: The Impact of Foreign Growth This is the English version of an article that appeared in the December issue of the WSI Mitteilungen Paper, by CEPR Co-director Dean Baker and Economic Policy Institute labor economist John Schmitt, November 1999 |
| The Stock Market, Globalization, and the MAI: Neo-Liberalism Comes Unglued from Z Magazine by Mark Weisbrot, October 1999. |
| Globalization: A Primer, by Mark Weisbrot, October 1999. This primer offers a guide to some of the current debates surrounding globalization, providing background in some of the basic concepts (e.g., balance of payments, exchange rates) as well as analysis of recent events. |
| Too Much of the Bubbly on Wall Street? by Dean Baker, October 1999. This paper is about the possibility and consequences of a decline in the stock market, from Dollars and Sense. |
| The Real Drug Crisis by Dean Baker, October 1999 (First published by CEPR August 21, 1999). This paper discusses Al Gore, South Africa and AIDS drugs.This was published in In These Times |
| A Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization: Everything You Need to Know to Fight for Fair Trade, July 1999.This brochure, developed by a coalition of labor, environmental, citizen, women's and public interest research organizations, describes the effects and impacts of the WTO, and offers suggestions as to how activists and other interested parties can get involved in the "fair trade" movement. |
| Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate, by Dean Baker, June 12, 1999. This paper examines the role that the economics profession has played in the current debate. |
| Longterm Productivity Projections by Dean Baker, May 25, 1999. This paper takes a critical look at the productivity projections for the Social Security program and their underlying assumptions. |
| Cruel Statistics: The Impact of Changes in the Consumer Price Index on Older Women by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, May 12, 1999 |
| Recent Experience with International Financial Markets: Lessons for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by Dr. Mark Weisbrot and Neil Watkins, April 1999. |
| A Survey of the Impacts of IMF Structural Adjustment in Africa: Growth, Social Spending, and Debt Relief by Robert Naiman and Neil Watkins, April 1999. |
| What Everyone Should Know About Social Security by Mark Weisbrot, February 1999 |
| Globalization for Whom? by Mark Weisbrot, December 1998. A publication in the 1998 Symposium Issue (vol. 31, #3) of the Cornell International Law Journal. |
| Welfare Reform: The Jobs Aren't There by Mark Weisbrot, December 1997. The avowed objective of welfare reform has been to lift welfare recipients out of poverty by moving them into paid employment. However, a wealth of evidence has now accumulated which demonstrates that this is impossible under current law and policy. There is a severe shortage of jobs, nationwide and particularly in the sector of the labor market in which most former welfare recipients participate. |
| Unequal Sacrifice: The Impact of Changes Proposed by the Advisory Council on Social Security, by Mark Weisbrot, January 1997. A critical analysis of the report of the Advisory Council on Social Security. |
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Baltimore's Living Wage Law: An Analysis of the Fiscal and Economic Costs of Baltimore City Ordinance 442, by Mark Weisbrot and Michelle Sforza-Roderick, October 1996. An assessment of the impact of Baltimore's living wage law on the business climate in Baltimore and a discussion of the impacts on contractors and employees affected by the legislation. Note: A study on the costs of the living wage in Baltimore, "The Effects of the Living Wage in Baltimore," by Christopher Niedt, Greg Ruiters, Dana Wise, and Erica Shoenberger, (February 1999) is available from the Economic Policy Institute. |
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