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Daniel Zamora Vargas discusses his new book “Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” co-authored with Anton Jäger.

Ferguson et al.’s revised INET working paper on Trump and the 2016 election is temporarily available on open access from the International Journal of Political Economy.

Hannah Farber discusses her book and explains how the insurance business and the United States discovered that they were good for one another.

Inclusive development especially the role of employment opportunities in a changing world of work and the environment in envisioning inclusiveness

Morale hazard can turn into a darker ‘moral’ hazard

There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital

Featuring articles by James B. Thomson and Walker F. Todd, Claudia Sahm, Gerald Epstein, Ronnie J. Phillips, Anastasia Nesvetailova, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., William Bergman, and Thomas Ferguson

There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.

A federal government guarantee or 100% reserve banking? Which is better?

Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs

The explanation of systematic breakdowns in supervisory oversight over time must include the shift in Federal Reserve culture during and after the 1990s

Austerity for ordinary citizens and bank rescues for the affluent is a toxic mix

This time is different. But is it?

In the following conversation, law and economics expert Walker Todd explains how a financialized system creates havoc and why it’s time to rethink banking

Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.