{"title":"Commentary on Guérin and Venkatasubramanian ‘Debt and the Politics of Numbers’","authors":"Amita Baviskar","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2319465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2319465","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Review of Political Economy (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World","authors":"Richard McGahey","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2319466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2319466","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews and summarizes six economics papers written as part of a project bringing together economists and anthropologists on conceptions and analyses of wealth. The project paired econ...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140567818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Minimum Wages Effectively Reduce Poverty under Low Compliance? A Case Study from the Agricultural Sector in South Africa","authors":"Ihsaan Bassier, Vimal Ranchhod","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2318957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2318957","url":null,"abstract":"What were the effects of a 52 per cent increase in the minimum wage in the agricultural sector in South Africa in 2013? We estimate the short run effects of this policy change on the income, employ...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"600 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140567908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supermultiplier Models, Demand Stagnation, and Monetary Policy: Inevitable March to the Lower Bound for Interest Rates?","authors":"Steven Fazzari","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2324863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2324863","url":null,"abstract":"This article integrates monetary policy into a very simple dynamic supermultiplier model with an accommodating supply side. Results show that monetary policy guided by a mainstream Taylor rule may ...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140154840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Macroeconomic Aspects of Unemployment Benefits: Evaluating the Danish Policy","authors":"Simon Thomsen, Hamid Raza, Mikael Byrialsen","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2303665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2303665","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an assessment of the Danish public policy of lowering unemployment benefits, adopted by the Danish government in the tax reform of 2012. To do so, we employ a stock-flow consi...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140155287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Rest for the Weary: Measuring the Changing Distribution of Retirement Wealth in the United States","authors":"Teresa Ghilarducci, Siavash Radpour, Jessica Forden","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2318956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2318956","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1992 wealth for the bottom 90 percent of households nearing retirement has fallen. The only source of wealth helping the bottom 90 percent is Social Security. Despite pro savings policies and...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Cardenas, Paloma Villanueva, Juan Rafael Ruiz
{"title":"Potential Output and Cyclically Adjusted Balance: An Application of the Updated Okun Method to Spain (1987–2022)","authors":"Luis Cardenas, Paloma Villanueva, Juan Rafael Ruiz","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2324860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2324860","url":null,"abstract":"The estimation of potential output is at the heart of the ongoing debate on the reformulation of fiscal rules in the European Union as it is an essential variable for their application. Spain const...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ECB’s Monetary Policy Review: A Post-Keynesian Twist?","authors":"Carlo Klein","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2326083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2326083","url":null,"abstract":"In 2021, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to adjust its monetary policy strategy. Three major changes were initiated: the main objective was reformulated, but also the structure of the insti...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José María González Lara, Laura Policardo, Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera
{"title":"Economic Growth Driven by the Mexican Fourth Transformation Policy","authors":"José María González Lara, Laura Policardo, Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2326092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2326092","url":null,"abstract":"The economic policy of the fourth transformation (4T) of Mexico - as the actual president Andrés Manuel López Obrador defines his mandate - is characterized by being cautious and responsible for pu...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"284 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140099309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debt and the Politics of Numbers: Hegemonic Numbers, Political Numbers, Ordinary Numbers","authors":"Isabelle Guérin, G. Venkatasubramanian","doi":"10.1080/09538259.2024.2318959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2024.2318959","url":null,"abstract":"Numbers are both shaped by and constitutive of a certain vision of the world, and household debt is no exception. Financialized capitalism relies on hegemonic numbers that serve the economic and po...","PeriodicalId":46174,"journal":{"name":"REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140072683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}