This working paper utilizes income data to evaluate the claim that in the United States a middle class existence has come to require two full-time incomes where formerly it had commonly required only one. To that end it makes an argument for the usefulness of measuring income in relation to per...

This working paper takes up the familiar theme of the decline of Gross Domestic Product and Gross World Product growth since the 1960s, making original calculations from World Bank data to estimate the consequences of a counterfactual continuation of post-war boom-era growth rates, the actual...

This working paper examines American perceptions of the Soviet Union's military capability during the Cold War, concentrating on the contradictions between the claims made for the Soviet system's capacity to generate a "full-spectrum" military threat to the West (and therefore an object of...

This working paper examines the decline of the "unipolarity" of the international system of the early post-Cold War period, concentrating specifically on the military dimension of the phenomenon, and the role three developments played in that decline, namely1. The redistribution of economic...

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...

This working paper, for the sake of a fuller appreciation of the expectations of a unipolar world order in the twenty-first century and their implications, considers the trend of U.S. economic and world growth in the 1990s, and the expectations of its continuation for decades or longer, and...

By way of manufacturing output, inflation and population growth data this paper considers per capita U.S. output across the range of officially tracked manufacturing categories over the 1947-2018 period. After arguing for the validity of its method (in particular, the use of CPI-adjusted figures...

This working paper extends the 'Mertonian' analysis of the author's prior working paper 'Are Attitudes to Work Changing? A Note' with a consideration of post-pandemic labor market data, in particularly the elevated quit rate that has led to talk of a 'Great Resignation.' Alongside the depressed...

In the 1990s a particular vision of the post-Cold War order became widespread—of an increasingly integrated and dynamic neoliberal economic order underpinned by a unipolar political order (in which the U.S. was the one pole) with this smoothly enduring through the twenty-first century due to...

In recent years the matter of neoliberal policy has become increasingly controversial, not merely in the appropriateness or unavoidability of such economic policies being increasingly contested, but the matter of whether the term 'neoliberal' refers to a recognizable body of policy at all, let...