Smart Globalization Initiative: Latest Publications

POLICY ROUNDTABLE: The Challenge of Job Creation

Next Social Contract — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:30:00 -0400

What the Government Can Do to Better Promote Job Creation
by Timothy J. Bartik

Jobs: What Can We Do?
by James K. Galbraith

The Time Has Come for Direct Job Creation
by L. Randall Wray

Panic Anniversary No Reason for Joy

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:29:00 -0400

We are a full year removed from the September 15, 2008, bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, which sent the global financial system into a tailspin, and yet just 10 days removed from one of the most dismal unemployment reports in 80 years.

On the one hand, this is no kind of celebratory one-year "anniversary," if you want to call it that, and it was certainly no kind of Labor Day either. And they are related.

'Buy American' -- Why Not?

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:40:00 -0400

Federal government purchases make up about 20% of the U.S. economy, yet the United States is almost alone among the major developed nations and China in not having a significant "buy domestic" government procurement program.

No single economic stimulus initiative would do more in the short and long term to resuscitate U.S. employment, especially manufacturing employment, and to materially reduce our economy-zapping massive trade deficit than a fair "buy American" program.

Japan Rethinks Reform

Next Social Contract — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:09:00 -0400

"The Koizumi reforms" was one of the portmanteau concepts most commonly bandied about in Japanese political debates in the summer of 2009 as the parties geared up for the August election. Japan had in fact embarked on its neo-liberal agenda of deregulation and privatization well before the charismatic Mr. Koizumi laconically offered his "no gain without pain" recipes, but it was pushed with most enthusiasm during his premiership from 2001 to 2006.

America’s Exhausted Paradigm: Macroeconomic Causes of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession

Economic Growth — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0400

Smart Globalization Initiative: Latest Publications

POLICY ROUNDTABLE: The Challenge of Job Creation

What the Government Can Do to Better Promote Job Creation by Timothy J. Bartik

Jobs: What Can We Do? by James K. Galbraith

The Time Has Come for Direct Job Creation by L. Randall Wray