The Department of Economics blog @ Wesleyan University
Gil Skillman’s article “Marx, Sraffa, and Surplus: Observations Prompted by Garegnani (2018),” was recently published in the Review of Political Economy. ABSTRACT In a posthumously published article, Pierangelo Garegnani (2018. ‘On the Labour Theory of Value in Marx and in the Marxist Tradition.’) depicts Marx’s project in Capital as that of ‘developing systematically the theory of Ricardo … Read more
Gary Yohe, along with Henry Jacoby, Richard Richels, and Ben Santer, published “Can a pandemic aid the fight against global warming?” in The Hill, May 16, 2020.
Professor David Kuenzel is the author of a new paper published in the January issue of the European Economic Review titled WTO Tariff Commitments and Temporary Protection: Complements or Substitutes? In the paper, Kuenzel investigates the link between traditional tariff instruments and temporary protection measures (antidumping, safeguard and countervailing duties). There is a long-held notion … Read more
Jennifer Raynor just published (with D.J. Phaneuf) “Can native species compete with valuable exotics? Valuing ecological changes in the Lake Michigan recreational fishery” in Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2020.03.012 Abstract: The Chinook salmon population in Lake Michigan is declining precipitously due to ecological changes, and the impact on recreational fishing value is unknown. … Read more
Gary Yohe published “Climate Action and Policy – Parallels with COVID-19”, Earth Day 2020, Springer Nature, https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sdg-programme/earth-day.
Wesleyan’s Andrews Professor of Economics (and President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges) contributed her insights to “FOCUS: Tips for Surviving and Thriving as an Academic Economist,” published by Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
Professor Gillian Brunet published a piece on Vox.com entitled “5 lessons from World War II for the coronavirus response” You can read it at: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21214980/coronavirus-economy-jobs-ppe
Professor Jennifer Raynor recently published an article in Nature Communications, titled “Impact of two of the world’s largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates.” As of today, it has already been accessed over 5000 times! The full cite and abstract are below: Lynham, J., Nikolaev, A., Raynor, J. et al. Impact of two of the world’s … Read more
Gil Skillman’s article, “Moseley’s ‘Macro-Monetary’ Reading of Marx’s Capital: Rejoinder and Further Discussion,” has just appeared in the Review of Radical Political Economics. Here’s the link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0486613419876062 Abstract: Moseley (2018) offers a partial reply to my review of his Money and Totality, addressing one comment at length while mentioning a second in passing and ignoring the third. … Read more
Gary Yohe, along with Richard Richels, and Henry Jacoby published “There is no Plan B on climate change” in The Hill on December 20.
