January/February 2011

California Greening: Fighting Climate Change in the Golden State

Governor Jerry Brown launched the most aggressive and successful combination of programs to combat climate change we have yet seen in the United States—understanding these programs can help other states do the same.

Beyond Keynesianism

By James M. Cypher

Irving Fisher’s Depression-era debt-deflation theory, then and now. Read more »
Still Banking on Fraud

By William K. Black

The Dodd-Frank banking reform and other responses to the financial crisis fail to address the “control fraud” that caused the crisis. Read more »
Unemployment: A Jobs Deficit or a Skills Deficit?

By John Miller and Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Politicians, journalists, and economists are trying to reframe a severe jobs crunch as a problem of workers’ inadequate skills. Read more »
Why Do They Oppose More Stimulus?

By Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Why are conservatives, especially wealthy conservatives, against stimulating the economy through deficit spending? Don’t businesses’ profits and the incomes of the wealthy depend on economic growth? Read more »