Econ4 - economics for people, the planet, and the future - responds to the growing demand from students and the wider public for innovative economics education that makes sense of how the economy works and offers a powerful vision of how it should work. Econ4's animated videos will serve as both...

This previously published, but now out-of-print paper addresses the circumstances surrounding the ‘Federal Reserve - Treasury Accord of 1951. We want to make it available now because of the current intense focus on the role of the Federal Reserve in the financial crisis, which has raised...

We present new estimates of the rentier share of national income for OECD countries for the years between 1960 and 2000. For most countries, the rentier share of income significantly increased during the last several decades, starting in the early 1980's and coinciding with the shift to...