Papers available:
I.
Political Economy.
1. Political-Economic Theory.
(i) Cover page
for the above – with a summary and comments.
B.
“Psychological Autism, Institutional Autism
and Economics” published in the Post-Autistic
Economics Review, issue no. 16, September 16, 2002 (article 2) at www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue16.htm. Republished in Edward Fullbrook, ed. The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic
Economics Movement: the First 600 Days. pp. 212-20. London: Routledge, 2003. 
C.
“Utopia” from the Encyclopedia
of Political Economy (1999).
2. Accumulation and Crisis.
B.
“Accumulation” from
the Encyclopedia of Political Economy (1999).
3. The “Labor Theory of Value” (or what should be called the
“law of value”).
A.
“The Utility of Value: the ‘New
Solution,’ Unequal Exchange, and Crisis,” Research
in Political Economy (1990).
C. “The Law of Value and Marxian Political Ecology,” in
Jesse Vorst, Ross Dobson, and Ron Fletcher, eds., Green on Red: Evolving Ecological Socialism (Society for
Socialist Studies/Fernwood, 1993).
E.
More
on this subject (a shorter version of the above).
F.
The Wikipedia entry
– to which I contributed (especially the “Alternative
Interpretation”). Note that this entry
could change at any time, changing any content I added.
4. The Theory of Exploitation.
A.
Roemer’s “General” Theory of Exploitation is a Special
Case. This paper – written with Gary Dymski,
now at the University of California-Riverside, argues against the well-known
Walrasian-Marxist theory of exploitation presented by John Roemer. Our
article was published in Economics and
Philosophy, vol. 7 (1991), pp. 235-75. 
B.
“Taxation without Representation:
Reconstructing Marx’s Theory of Capitalist Exploitation,” in William Dugger, ed., Inequality:
Radical Institutionalist Views on Race, Gender, Class, and Nation (Greenwood, 1996). 
C. Here’s a
paper which outlines a longer paper on
the Marxian theory of exploitation, stated in terms of neoclassical
economics. This is a revised version of the hand-out I used in my talk to
URPE at the ASSA convention on January 4, 2004.
D. Here’s
the longer draft paper on that subject. This is a preliminary version
(dated August
21, 2006) and will change due to your comments and criticisms.
(i) the main paper (draft).
(ii) the abstract.
E. Here’s a
more accessible article on the Marxian
theory of exploitation. It’s an early version of a paper I published
in Bill Dugger’s book, Inequality: Radical Institutionalist Views on Race, Gender, Class,
and Nation (1996). For the published article, see here.
II.
Macroeconomics and Economic History.
5. The Great Depression.
(i) For charts and tables in separate
files, click here.
B.
“The Great
Depression” from the Encyclopedia of Political Economy (1999).
C.
Another Depressing Article (1/99)
–published only in 2002 as “The Causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s
and Lessons for Today.” Revista
da FEA-PUC [Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contrabilidade e
Atuária da Pontifica Universidade
Católica de São
Paulo (Brazil)], 2000: 43–50.
6. Inflation and Unemployment.
A.
“The Rise and Fall of
Stagflation: Preliminary Results,” Review
of Radical Political Economics (2000).
B.
“The Natural Rate of Unemployment,” from
Edward Fullbrook, ed., A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics, Anthem Press (2004).
D. The
paper that was the basis for the talk I presented at the URPE@ASSA convention in New
Orleans on January
7, 2001 on the
encouragement of stagflation by falling profit rates. Here's the hand-out
that I gave out and one graph
that summarizes my thesis very well. The presentation is a
development of the paper that I had published during 2000 (“Rising Profits
and Falling Inflation: An Empirical Study,” Review of Radical Political
Economics, 32(3), 2000: 398-407).
E. Here's a
related unpublished paper that examines the connection between the alleged
recent speed-up of productivity growth and the seeming fall in the NAIRU (the
rate of unemployment below which inflation is theorized to get worse).
III.
Miscellaneous Articles.
7. Current Events Talks. These talks were popular in focus, mostly
suggesting predictions about future macroeconomic events but do pretty well
in hindsight:
A. Here’s a talk that
I gave on April 8, 2005, to the Society for
Humanistic Judaism in Los Angeles. It sketches the recent
business cycle in the U.S. and suggest
two possible scenarios.
B. Here’s
a talk I gave on March
16, 2004 to the Progress Alliance at Santa
Monica College,
in California. It’s strangely
similar to the talk to the Rotarians below, but with more long-term
perspective, including an emphasis on the rate of profit.
C. Here’s
a talk I gave on December 9,
2003 to the Downey (California)
Rotarians.
D. Here’s a
talk I gave in May 2002, to the Student International Forum, at Ohio
State University,
in Columbus, Ohio.
(It was revised in October, 2002.)
E. The talk
above was partly based on the talk I
gave to the Concerned Citizens at “Leisure World” (El Toro, CA) in May 2002
and partly on the December 2001 talk to a bunch of
Marxists in Sacramento, CA (at the appropriately-named “Marxist School of
Sacramento”). (The Ohio and Sacramento
talks relate current events to the fluctuations of the rate of profit.)
F. The
Concerned Citizens talk is an update of a February 2002 talk I gave
to the Economics Society at Loyola Marymount
University.
G. Here’s a
newsy talk that I gave in July 2001 on
the state of the economy, to a bunch of businesspeople. It turned out that
this was at about the time that many say the 2001 recession started, though
recent data indicate that it started earlier. That fit with what the
businesspeople said, since they were receiving the brunt of the economy’s
collapse.
8. Older articles on then-current events:
A. A Talk
about Current Events (3/99)
B. The
Goldilocks Economy and the 3 Bears (2/00)
C. The Three
Bears Redux! (3/00)
9. Other current events non-macro topics.
A. Here are
the notes for a talk that I gave on the topic of “Capitalism and Militarism”
on April 27, 2003 at Woodbury
University.
B. Here’s a talk I gave to Dr. Robert
Singleton’s economic history class at Loyola
Marymount University
on the rise and fall of the 1960s prosperity on February 17, 2004. I assumed that the students had read
the relevant chapters of Sam Rosenberg’s excellent American Economic
Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation (Palgrave
MacMillan, 2003).
C. Here’s
a talk on
labor unions that I gave in Dr. Robert Singleton’s Labor Economics course at Loyola Marymount University on April
11, 2005.
10. On recent
increases in income inequality:
A. My
January 1999 talk at the ASSA (1/99)
B. Growing
U.S. Disparities: A Primer and Critique (of Paul Krugman) (Updated
10/2002). This paper will be updated even more in the future.
C. A Note on
Recent Profitability (2/99)
11. Miscellaneous notes:
A. An
informal Review of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.
B. Notes
on Over-investment
C. Problems with
the Social Security System?
D. Notes
on “the Economic Problem”
E. Labor
Market Segmentation
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