Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2319466
Richard McGahey
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2318957
Ihsaan Bassier, Vimal Ranchhod
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2324863
Steven Fazzari
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 ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2303665
Simon Thomsen, Hamid Raza, Mikael Byrialsen
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...
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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...
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2324860
Luis Cardenas, Paloma Villanueva, Juan Rafael Ruiz
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...
{"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}
Pub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2326083
Carlo Klein
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-11DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2326092
José María González Lara, Laura Policardo, Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera
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...
墨西哥第四次转型(4T)的经济政策--正如现任总统安德烈斯-曼努埃尔-洛佩斯-奥夫拉多尔(Andrés Manuel López Obrador)对其任务的定义--以谨慎和负责任为特点,旨在促进墨西哥的经济发展。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2318959
Isabelle Guérin, G. Venkatasubramanian
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...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2024.2318962
Grieve Chelwa, Mashekwa Maboshe, Darrick Hamilton
We present evidence on the Black–White Racial Wealth Gap in South Africa and compare it to the well-known patterns of the same gap in the United States. We find that the patterns in the overall rac...
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