Lance Taylor received a B.S. degree with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1968. He has been a professor in the economics departments of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other research institutions. He is currently the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation at the New School for Social Research. He has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory. His most recent book is Maynard’s Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Economics.
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Janeway on Ramsey and Keynes: A Comment
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Lance Taylor responds to William Janeway’s essay on John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey. Janeway then offers his response.
Final Response to Andrew Smithers
Lance Taylor and Özlem Ömer respond to Andrew Smithers’s final comment on their working paper
Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump
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This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.
Summary of the Book Macroeconomic Inequality From Reagan to Trump
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Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Structural Change Caused Rising Macroeconomic Inequality for Fifty Years from before Reagan through Trump.This is a summary of a new book that is being published as part of a new book series with Cambridge University Press.
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The Intercept Features INET Climate Research
The Intercept highlights INET research from Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm and Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, and Armon Rezai
Reawakening From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time
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INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.
Are Economists in Denial About What's Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
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Today’s richest Americans may soon blow past the tycoons of the Roaring Twenties. Lance Taylor explains why, and what to do about it.
Do Economists Understand the Economy?
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Lance Taylor explains how missing the big picture is too common in the field.