This study by PERI researchers Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Peter Arno, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Michael Ash presents a comprehensive analysis of the prospects for a Medicare for All health care system in the United States. The most fundamental goals of Medicare for All are to significantly improve health care outcomes for everyone living in the United States while also establishing effective cost controls throughout the health care system. The authors conclude that these two purposes are both achievable. Medicare for All could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent while creating stable access to good care for all U.S. residents. 

In Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis, Francisco Louçã and PERI researcher Michael Ash examine the root causes of the 2007 – 09 global financial crisis. They explore how finance became hegemonic in the capitalist system; and what have been the social consequences of the rise of finance. They show how "shadow finance," or the non-regulated part of the financial system, is a crucial part of the operation of big banks and financial agencies. They also document how the broader "shadow economy" emerged through deliberate actions by government officials and other decision makers to advance a neoliberal capitalist order.

The Political Economy of International Finance in an Age of Inequality is a new volume of 11 research papers edited by PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein.  Epstein introduces the book by observing that neoliberal financial policies are presently ascendant globally, a decade after the system survived the 2007-09 financial crisis only through a massive series of government bailouts. The contributors to this volume develop a unique range of perspectives on institutions and power relations as well as economic forces in illuminating the experiences, constraints and opportunities facing emerging market economies in the contemporary global financial system.