Living Standards
Book
Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations
Palgrave Macmillan, ILO
This book examines the chronic underperformance of economies with respect to inclusion, sustainability and human and systemic resilience. It proposes a reformulation of macroeconomic theory and policy to explicitly internalize the role of policies and institutions that enable them. Correcting the imbalance of emphasis in modern economic theory and policy between markets and institutions, production and distribution, and national income and household living standards is the single most important step required to transcend 20th century trickle-down “neoliberalism” and replace it with a more human-centred model of economic progress in the 21st century.
Article
Waking Up: America’s Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity for Structural Economic Reform and Political Renewal
Huffington Post
Long form article published during the 2016 US presidential race warning about the complacency of the Clinton campaign and proposing a much stronger and more coherent economic policy program. Based on the contents of a memo sent earlier to the campaign.
Paper
Virtuous Circle: Strengthening Broad-Based Global Progress in Living Standards
Center for American Progress (CAP)
First of three policy briefs published at CAP proposing a fundamental, effectively post-neoliberal, shift in global economic integration and related US policies, re-anchoring them in the broader objective of raising the living standards and purchasing power of median households in developed and developing countries alike.