Post-Neoliberal Economics
Report
Inclusive Development Index
An alternative metric to GDP per capita for measuring national economic performance and level of economic development. I led the team that developed it.
Paper
Advancing Human-Centered Economic Progress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Leadership Agenda for G20 Governments
Co-authored policy brief contributed to G20-related Think20 process involving think tanks from around the world. With Nicholas Davis.
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.
Article
A 21st Century Square Deal
Washington Monthly
Magazine piece published during the 2016 presidential campaign advocating a much greater level of ambition in the Democratic candidate's economic policy program and arguing that the deeper reforms presented would help the Democratic Party assemble a true governing rather than mere electoral majority.
Paper
Beyond Business as Usual: G20 Leaders and Post-Crisis Reconstitution of the International Economic Order
Center for American Progress (CAP)
This 2009 policy brief proposes an agenda for deep reform of international economic governance, taking at face value the commitments expressed by G20 leaders during the Great Financial Crisis to render economic growth more inclusive, sustainable and robust.
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.
Official Document
1991 legislation to restrict NAFTA trade negotiating authority
US Senate letter seeking additional cosponsorship of legislation I drafted in 1991 to exclude labor rights, environmental protection, rule of origin, adjustment assistance and dispute settlement issues from NAFTA fast track trade (no amendment) negotiating authority sought by the Bush Administration. Ultimately endorsed by a majority of the Democratic Caucus and nearly a third of the Senate but ignored by the Administration.