2019 Reports
Toward an Economics of the Slowdown in the West
The West is in crisis – and so is economics. Economies are in a 50-year slowdown. Rates of return on investment have shrunk. Wages – and incomes generally – are stagnating for most people. Job satisfaction is down, especially among the young, and more working-age people are unwilling or unable to participate in the labor force. Yet economists have been largely mute on the underlying causes of this crisis and what, if anything, can be done to restore economic vigor. It is safe to say that the causes are not well understood. And they will not be understood until economists finally engage in the task of reshaping how economics is taught and practiced. In particular, the profession needs three revolutions that it still resists.
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More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Center on Capitalism and Society
- Economics
- Series
- Center on Capitalism and Society Working Papers, 112
- Published Here
- February 15, 2019