Banking Reform and the Resumption of Sustained Growth

Faxed to Francesco Baez, El Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico

The Relevance of Kalecki

Paper prepared for a Conference at the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, April 22-24, 1986

Schumpeter: Finance and Evolution

Prepared for a Conference: “Evolution of Technology and Market Structure in an International Context.. Sponsored by The International Schumpeter Society and The Universita degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, May 24-27, 1988. Typed manuscript dated July 14, 1988. Also included here is the paper as it appeared pp. 51-74, in Arnold Heertje and Mark Perlman, Ed. Evolving Technology and Market Structure: Studies in Schumpeterian Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1990

Target for Rate of Unemployment

The New York Times, Aug. 18, 1965, letters to the editor

The Tax Reform Now Passing Through Congress Evades the Issue Of Fairness …The Political Issue of Tax Reform Will Not go Away

One of the ongoing columns “The Economy from the Not-so Ivory Tower.

Between Nation and State: Examining the International Romani Unions

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

The Functions of a Manager

Undated. Prepared for a Brown University College-Community Research Program Seminar

The “Reasonableness” of Poverty: Progress and Pitfalls in South Africa’s Socio-economic Jurisprudence

The Constitutional Court of South Africa is perhaps the strongest institution in the country today. It is one of the few places for people to pursue institutional redress. In light of this, this thesis critically examines the reasonableness standard, the depoliticizing rhetoric around poverty the Court uses, as well as the practical obstacles for individuals or groups pursuing public interest litigation through the judiciary. It has found that for the Court to be more effective institution in light of the failings of other bodies conceived of by the Constitution, a number of the Court’s approaches must be altered slightly. The reasonableness standard must function more effectively as a programmatic guide for the government by substantively articulating a minimum core, one which will give government programs a goal to pursue and halt the vicious cycle of programs that don’t know what they are aspiring to. The Court also needs to better recognize the cost of the depoliticizing rhetoric it uses in its judgments, rhetoric that closes down political spaces for contesting poverty. Finally there are technical and practical obstacles including costs, direct access, and individual benefits that poor claimants face when trying to bring socioeconomic issues before the Court. All of these are problems that must be addressed for the Court, as potentially the only institutional actor left to fight for socioeconomic rights, to provide better redress to citizens whose rights have been violated

junH2009

From June 2009 Robert Kelly Archive