The New School for Social Research
Anwar Shaikh
Professor
Department of Economics
11th Floor, 6 East 16th St.
New York, NY 10003
shaikh@newschool.edu | 212-229-5717 ext. 3051



Anwar Shaikh


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Date Topic Title
2008 Inequality An International Comparison of the Incomes of the Vast Majority

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2008 Competition Competition and Industrial Rates of Return
Presented at the Conference to mark Ajit Singh’s retirement. Queens College, University of Cambridge.

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2007 International Trade Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade: History, theory, and empirical evidence
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, Routledge, New York, NY.

Introduction
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Globalization and the Myth of Free Trade
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2007 Macroeconomic Theory

A Synthesis of Keynesian and Classical Growth Theory

 

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2007 Macroeconomic Theory

Economic Policy in a Growth Context: A Classical Synthesis of Keynes and Harrod
submitted to Metroeconomica.

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2005 Aggregate Production Functions

Nonlinear Dynamics and Pseudo-Production Functions
in The Eastern Economics Journal, Special Issue on Production Functions.

[Download PDF 239KB]

2005 Macroeconomic Policy

How Fragile is the U.S. Economy?
Dimitri Papadimitriou, with Anwar Shaikh, Claudio dos Santos, and Gennaro Zezza, Strategic Analysis, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. 

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2005 Macroeconomic Policy

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush: The Bush Agenda
A Panel Discussion, with Darrick Hamilton and Jeff Madrick, Challenge, The Magazine of Economic Affairs, January-February, 2005.

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2004 Capacity Utilization

Measuring Capacity Utilization in OECD Countries:
A Cointegration Method

with Jamee Moudud, Working Paper No. 415, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

[Download PDF 472KB]

2004 Political Economy

The Power of Profit
(2004) Social Research, Vol. 71, No. 3.

[Download PDF 156KB]

2004 International Trade

The Economic Mythology of Neoliberalism
in Neo-Liberalism: A Critical Reader, Alfredo Saad-Filho (ed.), Pluto Press, London.

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2004 Macroeconomic Policy

Is Deficit-Financed Growth Limited?
Policies and Prospects in an Election Year

with Dmitri Papadimitriou, Claudio dos Santos and Gennaro Zezza, Strategic Analysis, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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2003 Welfare State

Who Pays for the "Welfare" in the Welfare State?
A Multicountry Study

Social Research, Vol. 70, No. 2.

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2003 Macroeconomic Policy

Deficits, Debts and Growth: A Reprieve but not a Pardon
with Dimitri Papadimitriou, Claudio dos Santos, and Gennaro Zezza, Strategic Analysis, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. 

[Download PDF 728KB]

2003 National Accounts

Measures of the Real GDP of U.S. Trading Partners:
Methodology and Results
with Claudio dos Santos, and Gennaro Zezza, Working Paper No. 387, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. 

[Download PDF 4.9MB]

2003 Macroeconomic Policy

Is International Growth the Way Out of U.S. Current Account Deficits?
A Note of Caution

with Claudio dos Santos and Gennaro Zezza, Policy Note 2003/6, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

[Download PDF 728KB]
2003 International Trade

Globalization and the Myth of Free Trade
Prepared for the Conference on Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade, New School, NYC.

[Download PDF 1.1MB | Spanish Translation PDF 204KB]
2003 Macroeconomic Theory

Labor Market Dynamics within Rival Macroeconomic Frameworks
in Growth, Distribution and Effective Demand: Alternatives to Economic Orthodoxy, George Argyrous, Gary Mongiovi, Mathew Forstater, (eds.), M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY: pp127-143.

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2002 International Trade

Productivity, Capital Flows, and the Decline of the Canadian Dollar:
An Alternate Approach

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2002 Macroeconomic Policy

Is Personal Debt Sustainable?
with Dimitri Papadimitriou, Claudio dos Santos, and Gennaro Zezza, Strategic Analysis, November, 2002, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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2002 Macroeconomic Theory

An Important Inconsistency at the Heart of the Standard Macroeconomic Model.
with Wynne Godley, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 24, No. 3.

[Download PDF 216KB]
2002 Welfare State

The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Welfare State
with E. Ahmet Tonak, in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism, Ron Baiman, Heather Boushey, and Dawn Saunders, (eds.), M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.

[Download PDF 7.6MB]
2000 International Trade

Explaining the U.S. Trade Deficit
Policy Note 2000/1, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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1999 International Trade

Understanding the U.S. Trade Deficit
Testimony before the Trade Deficit Review Commission, Washington, D.C. December, 1999.

[Download PDF 92KB]
1999 Macroeconomic Theory

Explaining Inflation and Unemployment:
An Alternate to Neoliberal Economic Theory
in Contemporary Economic Theory, Andriana Vachlou (ed.), Macmillan, London.

[Download PDF 297KB] [Spanish Translation PDF 704KB]
1999 Political Economy

Explaining the Global Economic Crisis:
A Critique of Brenner
Historical Materialism, No. 5.

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1999 International Trade

Real Exchange Rates and the International Mobility of Capital
Working Paper No. 265, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

[Download PDF 400KB] [Spanish Translation PDF 1MB]
1998 Political Economy

The Empirical Strength of the Labor Theory of Value
in Conference Proceedings of Marxian Economics: A Centenary Appraisal, Riccardo Bellofiore (ed.), Macmillan, London

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1998 International Trade

Explaining Long-Term Exchange Rate Behavior in the United States and Japan
Working Paper No. 250, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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1998 Stock Market

The Stock Market and the Corporate Sector: A Profit-Based Approach
in Markets, Unemployment and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume Two, Malcolm Sawyer, Philip Arestis, and Gabriel Palma (eds.), Routledge, London.

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1995 International Trade

Free Trade, Unemployment and Economic Policy
in Global Unemployment, John Eatwell (ed.), M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.

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1994 National Accounts

Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts
co-authored with E. Ahmet Tonak, Cambridge University Press.

[Download Ch. 1 PDF 140KB]
For a review of this book (by Fred Moseley) published in the Journal of Economic Literature click here.
1992 Macroeconomic Theory

Wandering Around the Warranted Path:
Dynamic Nonlinear Solutions to the Harrodian Knife-Edge
in Kaldor and Mainstream Economics: Confrontation or Convergence? (Festschrift for Nicolas Kaldor), Edward J. Nell and Willi Semmler, The Macmillan Press Ltd.

[Download PDF 316KB]
1992 Political Economy

The Falling Rate of Profit as the Cause of Long Waves: Theory and Empirical Evidence
in New Findings in Long Wave Research, Alfred Kleinknecht, Ernest Mandel, and Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.), Macmillan Press, London.

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1992 Political Economy

Values and Value Transfers: A Comment on Itoh
in Radical Economics, Bruce Roberts and Susan Feiner (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

[Download PDF 8MB]
1992 Macroeconomic Theory

A Dynamic  Approach to the Theory of Effective Demand
in Profits, Deficits and Instability, D. Papadimitriou (ed.), The Macmillan Press Ltd., London.

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1991 International Trade Competition and Exchange Rates: Theory and Empirical Evidence

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1990 Political Economy

Valor, Accumulacion y Crisis: Ensayos de Economica Politica
Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogota, Colombia.

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1989 Political Economy

The Current Economic Crisis: Causes and Implications Prepared for the Labor Notes Conference, Detroit, and in Against the Current.

[Download PDF 4.1MB] [Spanish Translation PDF 956KB]
1989 Macroeconomic Theory

Accumulation, Finance, and Effective Demand in Marx, Keynes, and Kalecki
in Financial Dynamics and Business Cycles: New Prospects, Willi Semmler, (ed.), M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.

[Download PDF 9.7MB ]
1987 Welfare State

The Welfare State and the Myth of the Social Wage
with E. Ahmet Tonak, in The Imperiled Economy, Book I, Union for Radical Political Economy, Robert Cherry, et al. 

[Download PDF 5.1MB]

1987 Political Economy

The Falling Rate of Profit and the Economic Crisis in the U.S.
in The Imperiled Economy, Book I, Union for Radical Political Economy, Robert Cherry, et al.

[Download PDF 5.5MB]
1986 Political Economy Abstract and Concrete Labor
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Political Economy Capital as a Social Relation
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Political Economy Exploitation
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Aggregate Production Functions Humbug Production Function
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Political Economy Market Value and Market Prices
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Political Economy Organic Composition of Capital
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1986 Political Economy Surplus Value
in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (eds.), The Macmillan Press Lts., London.

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1984 Political Economy

The Transformation from Marx to Sraffa
in Ricardo, Marx, Sraffa, The Langston Memorial Volume, Ernest Mandel, and Alan Freeman (eds.).

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1983 Political Economy Concentration and Centralization of Capital
in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Tom Bottomore (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

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1983 Political Economy Economic Crises
in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Tom Bottomore (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

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1983 Political Economy Pauperization
in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Tom Bottomore (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

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1983 Political Economy Reserve Army of Labour
in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Tom Bottomore (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

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1983 Political Economy Falling Rate of Profit
in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Tom Bottomore (ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

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1982 Political Economy

Neo-Ricardian Economics: A Wealth of Algebra, A Poverty of Theory
The Review of Radical Political Economics, 14(2).

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1980 Aggregate Production Functions

Laws of Production and Laws of Algebra—Humbug II
in Growth, Profits and Property, Edward J. Nell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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1980 Competition

Marxian Competition Versus Perfect Competition:
Further Comments on the So-Called Choice of Technique

The Cambridge Journal of Economics, No.4

[Download PDF 4.1MB]

This article is a response to comments on an earlier work, "Political Economy and Capitalism: Notes on Dobb's Theory of Crisis" (1978): [Download PDF 8.3 MB]
1980 International Trade

On the Laws of International Exchange
in Growth, Profits and Property, Edward J. Nell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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1980 International Trade

Foreign Trade and the Law of Value, Parts I and II


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1978 Political Economy

An Introduction to the History of Crisis Theories
in U.S. Capitalism in Crisis, U.R.P.E., New York.

[Download PDF 324KB] [Spanish Translation PDF 2MB]
1978 Political Economy

Political Economy and Capitalism:
Notes on Dobb's Theory of Crisis

Cambridge Journal of Economics, No.2.

[Download PDF 8.3MB]

For my response to comments, please see "Marxian Competition Versus Perfect Competition" (1980): [Download PDF 4.1MB]
1977 Political Economy

Marx's Theory of Value and the Transformation Problem
in The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism, Jesse Schwartz (ed.), Goodyear Publishing Co. 

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Addendum: Mathematical Appendix.
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1974 Aggregate Production Functions

Laws of Production and Laws of Algebra:
The Humbug Production Function

(1974) The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 56(1), February 1974, p. 115-120.

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For Robert Solow's rejoinder, click here.

For my responses to Robert Solow's rejoinder, please see "Laws of Production and Laws of Algebra: Humbug II" (1980): [Download PDF 805KB] and "Nonlinear Dynamics and Pseudo-Production Functions" (2005): [Download PDF 239KB]

1973 International Trade The Intelligent Reader's Guide to the International Monetary Muddle
Challenge:The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol 16 No.1.

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1973 Political Economy

Dissertation: Theories of Value and Theories of Distribution
Columbia University

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