The Federal Reserve is a hugely powerful institution whose policies ramify with enormous effect throughout the economy. In the wake of the Great Recession, monetary policy focused on quantitative easing. Now, there is talk of normalizing monetary policy and interest rates. That conversation is...

"The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years. One flaw was the growth model adopted after...

This paper explores and contrasts the revised Bretton Woods hypothesis (BW II) with the structural Keynesian hypothesis. Whereas the former sees the growing global imbalances of the three decades prior to the financial crisis of 2008 as beneficial, the latter sees them as problematic and...

Overview: Financialization as financial neoliberalism -- Financialization: what it is and why it matters -- The macroeconomics of financialization: stages of development approach -- The simple analytics of debt-driven business cycles -- Deflation and inflation dynamics with debt -- Herd...

The Bush - Cheney years have been marked by extremely poor economic performance, reflected in a business cycle expansion that is by many measures the weakest since World War II. Moreover, not only has the expansion been weak, it also looks to be ending with a severe financial crisis and the...

Finanzialisierung ist ein Prozess, in dessen Verlauf Finanzmärkte, -institutionen und -eliten zunehmend Einfluss auf Wirtschaftspolitik und ökonomische Ergebnisse gewinnen. Finanzialisierung transformiert die Funktionsweise des ökonomischen Systems sowohl auf der Makro- als auch auf der...

According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Neoliberalism as a variety of capitalism -- Part I: The United States -- 'economic contradictions coming home to roost? Does the u.s. Economy face a long-term aggregate demand generation problem?', journal of post keynesian economics, 25 (1), fall, 2002,...

This paper examines the major competing interpretations of the economic crisis in the US and explains the rebound of neoliberal orthodoxy. It shows how US policymakers acted to stabilize and save the economy, but failed to change the underlying neoliberal economic policy model. That failure...