Report No.3
03 July 2007
Report July 2007
In April, scholars, policymakers, and financial analysts gathered at the Levy Institute’s headquarters in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, to explore themes from the work of the late Levy Institute economist Hyman Minsky. A summary of their discussions appears in this issue of the Report.
Contents:
CONFERENCE
- 16th Annual Hyman P.Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies
Global Imbalances: Prospects for the US and World Economies
NEW STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
- The US Economy: What’s Next?
NEW LEVY INSTITUTE MEASURE OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING REPORT
- How Well Off Are America’s Elderly? A New Perspective
WORKSHOP
- From Unpaid Work to Employment Guarantee Policy: A Social Accounting Matrix Exercise
NEW WORKING PAPERS
- Are the Costs of the Business Cycle “Trivially Small”? Lucas’s Calculus of Hardship and Chooser-dependent, Non–Expected Utility Preferences
- State, Difference, and Diversity: Toward a Path of Expanded Democracy and Gender Equality
- Fiscal Policy in a Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) Model
- Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia
- Gender Disparities in Employment and Aggregate Profitability in the United States
- Surveying American Jews and Their Views on Middle East Politics: The Current Situation and a Proposal for a New Approach
- Employment Guarantee Programs: A Survey of Theories and Policy Experiences
- ELR-led Economic Development: A Plan for Tunisia
- Economic Perspectives on Aging
- Two National Surveys of American Jews, 2000–01: A Comparison of the NJPS and AJIS
LEVY INSTITUTE NEWS
- New Board Member
- New Appointments
- Candidates Sought
- Recent Levy Institute Publications