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A selection of columns, commentaries, and blog entries by PERI authors from the past year

 

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from Dollars & Sense
The Great Recession in Black Wealth
January 19, 2012

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
How Capital Flight Drains Africa: Stolen Money and Lost Lives
October 20, 2011

Gerald Epstein
from TripleCrisis
Watch Your Health and Your Pocketbook: A Bi-Partisan Scheme for Regulatory Deform
October 7, 2011

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from Dollars & Sense
Wal-Mart Makes the Case for Affirmative Action
September 13, 2011

Heidi Garrett-Peltier
from Dollars & Sense
The E.P.A.: A Phantom Menace
August 29, 2011

Gerald Epstein
from TripleCrisis
A First Ever Default? Closing the Gold Window, Forty Years On
August 15, 2011

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Environmentalism's Original Sin
August 9, 2011

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
The Climate Justice Imperative
May 26, 2011

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Tax Havens or Financial Sinkholes?
April 18, 2011

Gerald Epstein
from TripleCrisis
Outsourcing, Trade Agreements, and Employment: Lame Duck or Just Plain Lame?
February 21, 2011

Robert Pollin
from Campus Progress
Full Employment Economic Policies
February 16, 2011

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from Spotlight on Poverty
EITC and Minimum Wage: We Need Both to Make Work Pay
February 15, 2011

James K. Boyce
Acceptance Speech for the Common Heritage Award
The Environment as Our Common Heritage
February 8, 2011

Robert Pollin
from Tikkun
Fighting to Prevent Global Hunger
January 5, 2011

James K. Boyce 
from TripleCrisis 
Stop Free Pollution: Going Beyond Cap and Trade 
December 15, 2010

Gerald Epstein
from Monthly Review
Fed Bashing at the G-20: A Return to the Gold Standard Anyone?
November 15, 2010

Jane D'Arista
from TripleCrisis
For the Must-Do List: Retire the Dysfunctional Key Currency System
November 4, 2010

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
The Three R's of Real Security
October 13, 2010

Gerald Epstein
from TripleCrisis
Conflicts of Interest and the Financial Crisis
October 13, 2010

Robert Pollin 
from The Nation
It's Not the Party, It's the Policies
September 9, 2010

Robert Pollin 
from New America Foundation's Plan B for Economic Recovery
Promoting Recovery through Cheap Credit for Small Businesses
September 6, 2010

Robert Pollin
from New Labor Forum
U.S. Trade Policy & the Jobs Crisis
 September 2010

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from Dollars & Sense
We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
September 2010

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Letter from Flint, Michigan
August 31, 2010

Gerald Epstein
from TripleCrisis
U.S. Financial Reform: The End of the Beginning, or Simply the End?
August 10, 2010

James K. Boyce
from Real Climate Economics
Essentials of Smart Climate Policy
July 19, 2010

Gerald Epstein
from Economia e Politica
Beyond the Kindleberger Moment: Fighting Global Austerity
July 7, 2010

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Climate Change: Are People the Problem?
July 6, 2010

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from Dollars & Sense
Lies, Damned Lies, and Poverty Statistics: The Census Bureau is right to reconsider the official poverty line
 July 2010

Jane D'Arista
from Huffington Post
The Next Financial Crisis: Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon

June 22, 2010 

Jane D'Arista
from Baseline Scenario
Why Section 716 is the Indispensable Reform
June 10, 2010

SAFER
 from Huffington Post
 Reining in Speculation on Oil and Food Prices through the Financial Reform Bill
 June 7, 2010

Gerald Epstein & Jane D'Arista
from Alternet
Congress Should Force Big Banks to Stop Gambling with Our Money
May 26, 2010

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Truth Spill: Gulf Disaster Brings Home the Real Cost of Fossil Fuels
May 26, 2010

SAFER
 from Huffington Post
Deep Sixing Derivatives Reform: Stop the Cave In
May 19, 2010

SAFER
 from Huffington Post
 The Vitter Amendment Breaches the Banking/Commerce Barrier
 May 17, 2010

SAFER
 from Huffington Post
 Ending Interconnectedness: It's Already in the Bill
 April 28, 2010

Jane D'Arista
from The American Prospect
Simplifying Securitization

April 26, 2010

SAFER
 from Huffington Post
 Ending Wall Street's Vise
 April 23, 2010

James K. Boyce
from Foreign Policy in Focus
Will America Buy a New Climate Policy?
April 15, 2010

 Heidi Garrett-Peltier
from Dollars & Sense
Is Military Keynesianism the Solution?
 March 2010

James K. Boyce
from TripleCrisis
Obama Goes Nuclear: What Happened to Clean Energy?
February 26, 2010

Gerald Epstein
from Huffington Post
The Real Price of Proprietary Trading
February 23, 2010

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
We Need Decent Jobs Rather than Any Jobs
February 6, 2010

Robert Pollin
 from New Labor Forum
Industrial Policy and the Revival of U.S. Manufacturing
 January 2010

Jeannette Wicks-Lim
 from Dollars & Sense
Creating Decent Jobs: The Role of Unions
January 2010