Journal articles:
“If Keynes Were Alive Today…”: Reflections on Jim Crotty. Review of Radical Political Economics, 2023. With Arjun Jayadev.
Decomposing India’s Trade Ratio: 1980-2021. Development and Change, 2023. With Advait Mohrahir and Arjun Jayadev.
Rethinking Supply Constraints. Review of Keynesian Economics, 2023. With Arjun Jayadev
The Historical-Accounting Approach to Empirical Macroeconomics. Slides only, 2023
Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis. Review of Radical Political Economics, 2021.
The Evolution of State-Local Balance Sheets in the US, 1953-2013. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2019. With Arjun Jayadev and Amanda Page-Hoongrajok
A comparison of monetary and fiscal policy interaction under sound and functional finance regimes, Metroeconomica, 2018. With Arjun Jayadev
The Political Economy of Financialization in the US, Europe and India, Development and Change, 2018. With Arjun Jayadev and Enno Schroeder
Review of Reardon 2014, The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education. Review of Keynesian Economics, 2017.
Mapping India’s Finances: Sixty Years of Flow of Funds. Economic and Political Weekly, 2017, Vol. 52, No. 18. With Arjun Jayadev and Amay Narayan.
The Post-1980 Debt Disinflation: An Exercise in Historical Accounting. With Arjun Jayadev. Review of Keynesian Economics, 3 (2015): 314-335.
Loose Money, High Rates: Interest Rate Spreads in Historical Perspective. With Arjun Jayadev. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2015
Review of Dumenil & Levy, The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Rethinking Marxism, Fall 2014
Fisher Dynamics in Household Debt: The Case of the United States, 1929-2011. With Arjun Jayadev. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, August 2014.
Strange Defeat: How Austerity Economics Lost All the Intellectual Battles and Still Won the War. With Arjun Jayadev. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 68, No. 32, August 10, 2013.
Book chapters:
Macroeconomic lessons from the past decade. In Aggregate Demand and Employment: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives, edited by Hassan Bougrine, Brian MacLean and Louis-Philippe Rochon. 2020
Dealing with the Trade Deficit, in Untamed: How to Check Corporate, Financial and Monopoly Power, Roosevelt Institute, 2016
Reports:
Climate Policy from a Keynesian Point of View. Heinrich Böll Sifting, 2022
Rethinking Inflation Policy: A Toolkit for Economic Recovery. With Lauren Melodia. Roosevelt Institute, 2021.
Zoom Out: Keeping the Latest Jobs Numbers in Perspective. With Mike Konczal. Roosevelt Institute, 2021
Reimagining Full Employment. With Mike Konczal and Lauren Melodia. Roosevelt Institute, 2021.
Preventing Another Lost Decade: Why Large Federal Deficits Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared, in Today’s Economy. Roosevelt Institute, 2020
Public Spending as an Engine of Growth and Equality: Lessons from World War II. With Andrew Bossie. Roosevelt Institute, 2020.
The Public Role in Economic Transformation: Lessons from World War II. With Andrew Bossie. Roosevelt Institute, 2020.
Don’t Fear the Deficit: Why We Can Afford a Green New Deal. With Kristina Karlsson. Roosevelt Institute, 2019
Decarbonizing the US Economy: Pathways toward a Green New Deal. With Mark Paul and Anders Fremstad. Roosevelt Institute, 2019
Fiscal Rules for the 21st Century: How to Pay for the Public Sector. Roosevelt Institute, 2019
A New Direction for the Federal Reserve: Expanding the Monetary Policy Toolkit, With Mike Konczal. Roosevelt Institute, 2017
What Recovery? The Case for Continued Expansionary Policy at the Fed, Roosevelt Institute, 2017
Understanding Short-Termism: Questions and Consequences. Roosevelt Institute, 2015
An Agenda to End Short-Termism. With Mike Konczal and Amanda Page-Hongrajook. Roosevelt Institute, 2015
Disgorge the Cash: The Disconnect Between Corporate Borrowing and Investment. Roosevelt Institute, 2015
The Tax Adequacy Problem of the New England States. With John Miller. Political Economy Research Institute. 2014
Working papers:
Mainstream Macroeconomics and Modern Monetary Theory: What Really Divides Them? with Arjun Jayadev
Income Distribution, Household Debt, and Aggregate Demand: A Critical Assessment (paper) (slides)
Balance of Payments Constraints, the U.S. Current Account, and the Crisis of 2008
Selected popular writing:
Review of Thinking Like an Economist, by Beth Bopp Berman. Jacobin, Summer 2022.
The Real Secret of Central Banking: There Are No Maestros. Barron’s, January 2022.
Inflation is bad. But mass unemployment would have been worse. Washington Post, October 2021. With Lauren Melodia.
Beyond Neoliberal Trade. Boston Review, August 2021. With Arjun Jayadev.
America’s Inflation Debate is Fundamentally Confused. New York, August 2021. With Eric Levitz.
How to Have a Roaring 2020s (Without Wild Inflation). New York Times, June 2020. With Mike Konczal.
Why Biden’s $1.9trn bill represents a decisive shift in economic thinking. New Statesman, April 2021.
Review of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, by Stephanie Kelton. The American Prospect, July 2020.
Karl Marx and the Corporation. Jacobin, July 2020.
The worst time to slash Medicaid: Coronavirus and Cuomo’s redesign plans. New York Daily News, March 2020.
A Wave of State Layoffs Is Coming. The Fed Could Help Turn Back the Tide. Barron’s, March 2020.
Why College Should Be Free. Jacobin, July 2020.
Why Rent Control Works, in Jacobin
The Crash of Austerity Economics, in The American Prospect. With Arjun Jayadev
The Economic Case for the Green New Deal, in Forbes. With Mark Paul and Sue Holmberg
Pulling Rabbits out of Hats, in Jacobin
The Market Police (review of Slobodian, Globalists), in Boston Review
The End of Carbon Fuels?, (forum contribution), in The International Economy
Austerity by Design (review of Varoufakis, Adults in the Room), in Boston Review
Does the Conventional Wisdom about Productivity Need to be Reconsidered? (forum contribution), in The International Economy
The Disruptors, in Jacobin. With Seth Ackerman
Review of Wilson, Destructive Creation, in Dissent
A Cautious Case for Economic Nationalism, in Dissent
Socialize Finance, in Jacobin (also in Spanish)
The Fed Doesn’t Work For You, in Jacobin
Disgorge the Cash!, in The New Inquiry
In Defense of David Graeber’s Debt, in Jacobin
What Are the Bankers Up To?, in Jacobin
A Brief History of the Federal Reserve, in Economics for the 99 Percent, Center for Popular Economics
The Big Idea: Tax Evasion, in City Limits
The Big Idea: The Flattering Tax, in City Limits
The Big Idea: Tax the Street, in City Limits
Three Scenes from a Bull Market, in The Baffler
Review of Buhle, Taking Care of Business, and Parker and Gruelle, Democracy is Power, in The Boston Review
Review of Mills, Letters and Autobiographical Writings, in In These Times
Review of Hardt and Negri, Empire, in In These Times
The Buses Don’t Stop Here Anymore: Sick Transit and How to Fix It, in The American Prospect
Review of Jameson, Brecht and Method, in In These Times
Review of Amis, Night Train, in In These Times
Review of Parenti, Lockdown America, in The American Prospect
Updated January 2021.
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