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Intragovernmental Autonomous Stabilizers, Alex Williams

Theses - Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy

We present a novel framework for understanding the relationship between the federal and state governments of the United States of America. Drawing on the experience of state government finances during and after the Great Recession in 2008, we propose the establishment of novel intragovernmental budgetary stabilization mechanisms. We draw out the flawed arguments of the existing fiscal federalism literature and demonstrate how the work of Michael Pettis and Modern Monetary Theory provide more usable insights when crafting public policy. We propose several potential policy responses and produce a counterfactual model of state finances after the Great Recession using the new …

Time And Consumption Poverty Among Mainland Tanzanian Children: Material Conditions To Secure Stated Rights, Marokey Sawo

Theses - Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy

This paper examines the differences in how Tanzanian children across various socioeconomic axes spend their time across schooling, unpaid care work, and income-generating activities. Previous research and theory have primarily focused on child employment and its dynamics with education, neglecting a substantial amount of work borne by some children to maintain their households’ livelihoods. Using time use and consumption survey data, this paper fills the current gap in the literature by applying a multidimensional framework called the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty. The results indicate that child employment is quite prevalent in mainland Tanzania across different tiers …

Henry George School, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes: (p. 1)

• Dividends and interest ledger (2018 to 2019) by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (p. 2)
• Henry George School investments as of April 25, 2019 by Henry George School of Social Science (p. 3)
• Year-to-date performance and withdrawals report (2019-04-25) by Henry George School of Social Science (p. 4)
• Amazon panel discussion notes (2019-03-26 to 2019-03-28) by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (pp. 5-6)
• Henry George School of Social Science memorandum – 40: Amazon seminar (2019-03-15) by Marty Rowland (p. 7).

Post-Election Economics & Other Notes, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2004, December 3). Post-election economics. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Borrowing behavior and debt service [Handwritten draft notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Becker, E. (2004, October 14). Nordic countries come out near the top in two business surveys. The New York Times. Publisher details not identified.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2004, November 10). Post-election economics [Annotated draft]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2004, November 3). Eco implications of election [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2004, November 3). Comments & discussion [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Macroeconomic notes on sectors and equations …

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Mosler, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1999, March 2). XR’s citing Mosler on government intervention in foreign currency [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Mosler [Unpublished handwritten notes on government deficits, taxes, unemployment, and the base wage].

The Balanced Budget Amendment: A Time Bomb To Subvert American Prosperity, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Paper dated Feb. 13, 1995.

Summary of a Report: ’A Time Bomb to Subvert American Prosperity’.

Reconstituting The Financial Structure: The United States, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

This is a paper originally prepared for a Conference on "‘Issues on Banking Structure and Competition in a Changing World,"held at the Hotel Ramada Renaissance, Antalya Turkey, Sept. 18-20, 1991.

The main download here is the revision dated 13 May 1992.

Also included here are:

The paper with handwritten notes;

A Preliminary version of the paper;

A handwritten copy;

Comments on the paper prepared by Deniz Gökçe;

A schedule for the Conference;

A second copy of the May revision that was on a separate computer disk in Minsky's papers.

Social Wage Notes, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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• Soc. wage: Discussing social spending, the concept of the welfare state, and transfers between classes [Handwritten notes for Economics 205]. Shaikh, A. (1992, March 17). Unpublished manuscript.

• On the “social wage”: Discussing post-war capitalism, expansion of the state role, and transfer payments to labor, including a table on sources of workers’ consumption from 1947–1977 and critiques of Bowles and Gintis [Paper]. Shaikh, A. (1984, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• My data, social wage: Comparing labor taxes and social consumption for 1952, 1961, and 1970 [Table]. Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Unpublished manuscript.

• The estimation procedure of net …

Social Wage Us Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Tonak, E. A. (1987). The welfare state and the myth of the social wage. In The imperiled economy, Book I: Macroeconomics from a left perspective. Publisher details not identified.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Revisions for OECD studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 13). Revisions to Shaikh/Tonak paper [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Country studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Labor benefit, tax rates, unemployment rate, and real wages [Printed graphs]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, December 22). Social …

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Inflation Budget Deficits, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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• Gowland, D. (1991). Debt management and government finance. In Money, inflation and unemployment: The role of money in the economy (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

• Congdon, T. G. (1987). The link between budget deficits and inflation: Some contrasts between developed and developing countries. In M. J. Boskin, J. S. Flemming, & S. Gorini (Eds.), Private saving and public debt (pp. 40–71). Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.

• Boskin, M. J., Flemming, J. S., & Gorini, S. (Eds.). (1987). Private saving and public debt [Book front matter: title pages, table of contents, and preface]. Oxford, …

On The Social Wage, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• On the “social wage”: Critiquing Bowles and Gintis and providing alternative measures of social welfare expenditures and taxes [Paper]. Shaikh, A. (1984, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• Figure 5.5—Social wage comparisons: Showing the social wage as a percentage of total wages for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia [Chart for Economics 205]. Shaikh, A. (1987, April). Unpublished manuscript.

Price Leve L- Wages, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• CRITIQUE of Morishima’s "Marx’s Economics"
• CAPITAL, REVENUE + PRICE-VALUE DEVIATIONS
• Price of Production and Value (multi-card set, pp. 3–8, with red underlines)
• Victor Perlo (see photostat) (1968)
• Bortkiewicz Critique (3/4/78)
• DEFINITION OF SURPLUS-VALUE AS AN INCREMENT OVER TOTAL ADVANCED CAPITAL (PROFIT)
• PRICE-VALUE DEVIATIONS and SURPLUS VALUE
• VALUE VARIATIONS DUE TO TECHNICAL CHANGE (multi-card set, with red underlines)
• Capitalist Cost-Price & Social Cost = Value (written in blue ink, with red annotations)
• Complete Mechanization & Capitalist Reproduction (1/15/85)
• Marx on Competition (1847) (6/86; multi-card set written in blue ink, with some red underlines and …

Price Value, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

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Handwritten note cards titled:

• Baumol: What Marx “Really” Meant on the Transformation Problem (March 1973 draft), 3 numbered pages front and back
• Prices of Production as Modified Values
• Price and Value
• Market Prices and Abstract Prices and Values (written in blue ink)
• Rent & Absolute Prices
• Loans and Taxes (with some text in red ink)
• Government Deficits & Surplus Value (9/6/84)
• Two Senses of Socially Necessary Labor-Time (& Market Value) (5/81)
• Two Senses of Socially Necessary Labor Time
• TWO SENSES TO SOC. NECESSARY (4/20/77), written in blue ink, pp. 1b–3b
• Two Senses to Soc. Necessary (4/20/77), written …

Limitations Of Monetary (And Fiscal) Policy In An Age Of Financial Instability, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Prepared for the Conference on Streams of Economic Thought, held in Trieste, Udine, Italy, 1-3 September, 1984. The main paper is the published work, the second paper here is the original with Minsky's extensive editorial rewritings.

Social Wage, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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This collection includes.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1984, May). On the “social wage” (Unpublished manuscript). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

State, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• State (on Gabriel Kolko article, Summer 1980)
• Wages and Taxes
• Non-Capitalist Sectors
• State Capital

Capitalist Rationality And The State, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

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Handwritten note cards titled:

• Investment and Effective Demand (1/3/81)
• Mattick on Bourgeois Economics (9/6/84)
• Mattick on Bourgeois Economics (9/6/84)
• Debt and Surplus Value (9/6/84)
• Government Deficits & Interest (2/3/85)
• Marx & Keynes: Investment, Profits, Capacity Utilization (8/25/84)
• Balanced Budget Multiplier (5/80)
• Macroeconomics Math Example
• Effects of Cut in Income on Stock or Flow of Saving (9/18/80)

Forms Of Appearance Of Surplus Value, Anwar Shaikh Phd

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• Shaikh, A. (1978, April). The forms-of-appearance of surplus value [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Anwar Shaikh, PhD.

• Shaikh, A. (1978, April). A critique of Gillman and Mage [Unpublished handwritten notes]. Anwar Shaikh, PhD.

The Roots Of Current Economic Problems, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

No abstract provided.