Tyler Hansen and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin analyze fossil fuel divestment campaigns as a strategy for advancing an effective global climate stabilization project.  They examine data on global divestment patterns and evaluate econometrically the impact of divestment events on the stock market prices of fossil fuel companies.  They conclude that divestment movements have not been especially effective as a means of significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.  The paper suggests that most efforts now devoted to divestment campaigns would be better spent on more direct efforts to drive down fossil fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions.

The Turkish economy suffered significantly from the crises of 1994, 2001, and 2008–09. This paper by Hasan Cömert and Erinς Yeldan presents a broad overview of these experiences.  The first two episodes were mostly finance-led and finance-driven, with repercussions on the real sectors thereafter.  By contrast, the 2008–09 crisis was a fully-fledged real sector crisis from the outset, including a direct collapse in employment and productivity.  Cömert and Yeldan's analysis provides a framework for understanding current developments in the Turkish economy.

According to PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein, since the mid-1980s, the short answer to this question is "no." Among the reasons: U.S. workers disproportionately finance the costs of U.S. imperialism through their taxes; and cheap imports facilitated by U.S. imperialism hurt U.S. workers' wages and job prospects. U.S. workers also pay in blood, as they constitute most of the U.S. military. But Epstein argues that, from the 1950s – 70s, U.S. workers did gain from imperialism, since they had more bargaining power and they paid a lower share of total taxes.