This note compares the recent economic performance of the world at large (particularly with the exception of China set aside) to that of Japan in its "lost decades. On the basis of the GDP growth rate observed since the 2007 financial crisis, and the apparent imminence of a possibly severe...

This working paper considers certain implications of the U.S. economic boom of the late 1990s, notably how it deflected criticism of the country's neoliberal course for several years, in large part through the expectations it created regarding a digital technology-driven "New Economy," and the...