The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) promotes human and ecological well-being through our original research. Our approach is to translate what we learn into workable policy proposals that are capable of improving life on our planet today and in the future. In the words of the late Professor Robert Heilbroner, we at PERI “strive to make a workable science out of morality.”

Established in 1998, PERI is an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with close ties to the Department of Economics. PERI staff frequently work collaboratively with faculty members and graduate students from the University of Massachusetts, and other economists from around the world. Since its founding, PERI has become a leading source of research and policy initiatives on issues of globalization, unemployment, financial market instability, central bank policy, living wages and decent work, and the economics of peace, development, and the environment.

Follow

Submissions from 2004

PDF

The Rise of European Unemployment: A Synopsis, Engelbert Stockhammer

Submissions from 2003

PDF

Production of Chlorofluorocarbons in Anticipation of the Montreal Protocol, Maximilian Auffhammer, Bernard J. Morzuch, and John K. Stranlund

PDF

Economic Integration, Cultural Standardization, and the Politics of Social Insurance, Samuel Bowles and Ugo Pagano

PDF

Inequality and Environmental Protection, James K. Boyce

PDF

A Tale of Two Clams: Policy Anticipation and Industry Productivity, Sylvia Brandt

PDF

Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Natural Resources: The Role of Strategic Entry and Exit, Sylvia Brandt

PDF

Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In U.S. Manufacturing Industries, Minsik Choi

PDF

An Econometric Analysis of International Variations in Child Welfare, Nasrin Dalirazar

PDF

Alternatives to Inflation Targeting Monetary Policy for Stable and Egalitarian Growth: A Brief Research Summary, Gerald Epstein

PDF

Capital Management Techniques In Developing Countries: An Assessment of Experiences from the 1990's and Lessons For the Future, Gerald Epstein, Ilene Grabel, and Jomo K. S.

PDF

Rentier Incomes and Financial Crises: An Empirical Examination of Trends and Cycles in Some OECD Countries, Gerald Epstein and Dorothy Power

PDF

The Past as Future? The Contribution of Financial Globalization to the Current Crisis of Neo-Liberalism as a Development Strategy, David Felix

PDF

The New Face of Unequal Exchange: Low-Wage Manufacturing, Commodity Chains, and Global Inequality, James Heintz

PDF

Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor Standards in Developing Countries, James Heintz and Robert Pollin

PDF

The Impact of Reforming Wheat Importing State-Trading Enterprises on the Quality of Wheat Imported, Nathalie Lavoie

PDF

International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies, Margaret Levenstein, Valerie Suslow, and Lynda Oswald

PDF

A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation, James J. Murphy, Geoffrey Allen, Thomas H. Stevens, and Darryl Weatherhead

PDF

Mechanisms for Addressing Third Party Impacts Resulting From Voluntary Water Transfers, James J. Murphy, Ariel Dinar, Richard E. Howitt, Erin Mastrangelo, Stephen J. Rassenti, and Vernon L. Smith

PDF

Is Cheap Talk Effective at Eliminating Hypothetical Bias in a Provision Point Mechanism?, James J. Murphy, Thomas Stevens, and Darryl Weatherhead

PDF

Capital Flows, Capital Account Regimes, and Foreign Exchange Rate Regimes in Africa, Léonce Ndikumana

PDF

The Economics of Civil War: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Léonce Ndikumana and Kisangani Emizet

PDF

Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?, Robert Pollin

PDF

Individual Country Technical notes For: Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000, Dorothy Power, Gerald Epstein, and Matthew Abrena

PDF

Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000, Dorothy Power, Gerald Epstein, and Matthew Abrena

PDF

Survey Instrument for Case Studies of Food Safety Innovation, Elisabete Salay, Julie A. Caswell, and Tanya Roberts

PDF

A Comparison of Cheap Talk and Alternative Certainty Calibration Techniques in Contingent Valuation, Mihail Samnaliev, Thomas Stevens, and Thomas More

PDF

A More or Less Unequal World? World Income Distribution in the 20th Century, Bob Sutcliffe

PDF

Information Policy and Genetically Modified Food: Weighing the Benefits and Costs, Mario F. Teisl and Julie A. Caswell

PDF

Social Conflict and Macroeconomics: what determines the effectiveness of aggregate demand policies?, Euclid Tsakalotos

Submissions from 2002

PDF

Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Model, Michael Ash and T. Robert Fetter

PDF

Africa’s Debt: Who Owes Whom?, James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana

PDF

Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals?, Elissa Braunstein and Gerald Epstein

PDF

Measuring the Impact of Living Wage Laws: A Critical Appraisal of David Neumark's How Living Wage Laws Affect Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families, Mark D. Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Linn, and Robert Pollin

PDF

The Lighthouse and the Potato: Internalizing the Value of Crop Genetic Diversity, Stephen B. Brush

PDF

The Effects of Increased Product Market Competition and Changes in Financial Markets on the Performance of Nonfinancial Corporations in the Neoliberal Era, James Crotty

PDF

An International Index of Child Welfare, Nasrin Dalirazar

PDF

Employment-Oriented Central Bank Policy in an Integrated World Economy: A Reform Proposal for South Africa, Gerald Epstein

PDF

Capitalism, Carol E. Heim

PDF

Global Labor Standards: their impact and implementation, James Heintz

PDF

Globalization and the Transition to Egalitarian Development, Robert Pollin

PDF

Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets, Robert Pollin, Dean Baker, and Marc Schaberg

PDF

Global Apparel Production and Sweatshop Labor: Can Raising Retail Prices Finance Living Wages?, Robert Pollin, Justine Burns, and James Heintz

PDF

Agricultural Globalization in Developing Countries: Rules, Rationales and Results, J. Mohan Rao and Servaas Storm

PDF

Capacity Utilization, Income Distribution, and the Urban Informal Sector: An Open-Economy Model, Kendall K. Schaefer

PDF

Stock Market Liquidity and Economic Growth: A critical appraisal of the Levine/Zervos model, Andong Zhu, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin

Submissions from 2001

PDF

Empowerment Through Risk-Related Information: EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Project, Nicolaas Bouwes, Steven M. Hassur, and Mark D. Shapiro

PDF

Shifting from the Home to the Market: Accounting for Women's Work in Taiwan, 1965-95, Elissa Braunstein

PDF

Threat Effects and the Internationalization of Production, James Burke and Gerald Epstein

PDF

Threat Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Union Wage Premium, Minsik Choi

PDF

Can Advocacy-Led Certification Systems Transform Global Corporate Practices? Evidence and Some Theory, Michael E. Conroy

PDF

Economic Performance in Post-Crisis Korea: A Critical Perspective on Neoliberal Restructuring, James Crotty and Kang-Kook Lee

PDF

Democratizing Global Economic Governance: A PERI Symposium, Jane D'Arista, Keith Griffin, Lisa Jordan, James Crotty, Eva Paus, and J. Mohan Rao

PDF

The Sanctity of Property Rights in American History, Gerald Friedman

PDF

China's Urban Unemployement: Exposed "Disguised Unemployment" or Insufficient Aggregate Demand?, Minqi Li

PDF

Financial Markets and Economic Development in Africa, Léonce Ndikumana

PDF

Two Different Export-Oriented Growth Strategies under a Wage-led Accumulation Regime, Özlem Onaran and Engelbert Stockhammer

PDF

Building Social Capital to Protect Natural Capital: The Quest for Environmental Justice, Manuel Pastor

PDF

Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State, J. Mohan Rao

PDF

Defending the Public Domain: Pollution, Subsidies and Poverty, Paul H. Templet

Submissions from 1998

PDF

Development in A Time of Globalization, J. Mohan Rao

Submissions from 1997

PDF

The Relevance of Hyman Minsky, Robert Pollin

Submissions from 1995

PDF

Financial Structures and Egalitarian Economic Policy, Robert Pollin