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In The News

Teresa Ghilarducci speaks at the
Re-Envisioning Retirement Security Conference
October 21, 2009

Teresa Ghilarducci quoted in USA Today
Retirement Overhaul

USA Today
Christine Dugas
October 21, 2009


Jeff Madrick - They Didn't Regulate Enough and Still Don't
Jeff Madrick
The New York Review of Books
November 5, 2009


Jeff Madrick
quoted in New York Times

Frank Rich
The New York Times
Opinion
October 17, 2009


Teresa Ghilarducci on Age Discrimination in the Workplace

Older Workers and Their Rights

The New York Times
Opinion
October 7, 2009


The Economy Needs Agent-Based Modelling
J. Doyne Farmer & Duncan Foley
Nature
August 6, 2009


GRA's Referenced in The Government Accountability Office Report
Teresa Ghilarducci's GRA's are referenced in the GAO report as an alternative approach
to retirement security.
July 2009


Teresa Ghilarducci In The News:

On GRITtv - Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Reed Abelson who covers healthcare for the NYT, and Teresa Ghilarducci director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy at the New School on the economics of healthcare reform.
July 8, 2009

Interview with The Index Investing Show host Ron DeLegge
June 20, 2009

Does America Need a New Retirement System? We May Need Help, but Don't Necessarily Trust Someone Else to Save Us
By Katrina Brown Hun - MSNBC
May 5, 2009

Guarenteed Retirement Accounts
By Gerald Weinand - Turn Maine Blue

May 12, 2009

Parade Magazine
Teresa Ghilarducci featured in Parade's Intelligence Report
April 29, 2009


Jeff Madrick's
book, The Case for Big Government, was named one of two Finalists for the PEN/Galbraith Award for General Non-Fiction in 2007-2008. The winner was Steve Coll for his book, The Bin Ladens. The other Finalist was Jane Mayer for The Dark Side, her book on torture and wiretapping in the Bush Administration. An awards ceremony will be held on May 19, at CUNY Graduate Center. Read the complete press release.

DURING A BEAR MARKET, FUTURE OF THE 401(K) IS QUESTIONED
Boston Globe
Tim Gray
April 12, 2009


Sheba Tejani, a doctoral student in the department of Economics at The New School for Social Research and a Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis research assistant, has been awarded the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), a program administered by the Social Science Research Council and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

MOVING BEYOND 401(K) PLANS - An interview with Teresa Ghilarducci
US News
Emily Brandon
March 1, 2009


Teresa Ghilarducci
featured in "Women and the Economy" story. Click on Women and the Economy under Media Library.

Teresa Ghilarducci's proposal for fixing the pension system in the news:

MONEYVOICES: SCRAP 401(K) FOR GOV’T ACCOUNTS
IGNITES Editorial
February 19, 2009


IT'S TIME TO FIX THE 401(K) THE 401(K) PLAN CAN BE A POWERFUL SAVINGS TOOL. BUT FOR MORE OF US TO ENJOY A SECURE RETIREMENT, WE NEED A BIGGER, BETTER IDEA
CNNMoney.com
Penelope Wang
February 16, 2009


GOLDEN YEARS LOSE A LOT OF THEIR GLITTER
Congressional Quarterly
Clea Benson
February 15, 2009


TOLL ON 401(k) SAVINGS ADDS YEARS MORE OF TOIL
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Teresa Ghilarducci tells the Washington Post's Nancy Trejos that diminishing retirement funds will mean working longer and spending less when we do retire.
Washington Post

Nancy Trejos
January 29, 2009


How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do
by Jeff Madrick
Read Jeff Madrick's piece in The New York Review of Books.

Renewed Deal
A review of Jeff Madrick's book The Case for Big Government
The New York Times
David Kusnet
January 16, 2009


Teresa Ghilarducci's Guaranteed Retirement Accounts
“Year in Ideas" Issue of the New York Times Magazine
December 14, 2008


“THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE U.S. ECONOMY, AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATION”

On Friday, November 14, The New School for Social Research’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis hosted a conference on the domestic and international consequences of the U.S.-led recession. The event was organized by Economists for Peace and Security, the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation Initiative for Re-thinking the Economy, and the Levy Economics Institute. The current crisis of subprime mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, credit derivatives, and failing investment banks is deeper and more severe than any since the Great Depression. Conference participants discussed how the crisis originated in the United States- the center of the global system-and how cascading problems emerge when the world loses confidence in the system that supports the valuation of the global-reserve currency. The conference brought together an exceptional international group of close observers of the financial system, including James K. Galbraith, Joseph Stigltiz, Warren Mosler, Allen Sinai, Jeff Madrick, Teresa Ghilarducci and many others to consider the larger implications for U.S economic policy and for the international financial and monetary system (IFMS). Panel discussions took an explicit account of the deep political nature of the IFMS and its effect on international security relations and peace in the world. Four specific themes were prominent: the nature of the current crisis; economic policy challenges facing the United States; the design of a new domestic financial architecture; and the blueprint of a new international financial architecture, if and as it becomes needed. View the conference at FORA.tv.

The New School Observer
November 17, 2008

Troubled by Toll Road investments
Teresa Ghilarducci
Indiana Star
November 23, 2008

PENSIONS, 401(K)S AND WHAT’S NEXT
An interview with Teresa Ghilarducci
Marketplace
November 21, 2008

Save Pensions
Teresa Ghilarducci
NY Times, Op-Ed
September 26, 2008


How big government helps the economy take off
Jeff Madrick
Boston.com
September 7, 2008


Darrick Hamilton pushes article in Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

Scholars have found that poor English fluency is negatively associated with wages using self-reported measures, however, these estimates may suffer from misclassification bias.  Interviewer ratings are more likely to accurately proxy employer, co-worker and societal assessment of worker language ability.  Using measures of both self and interviewer reports of English fluency for workers with Mexican ancestry residing in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, we find that interviewer fluency ratings suggest a larger and more gradational language penalty as fluency falls, and women face a stronger penalty than their male counterparts. Copy of article available below.

"Measuring the Wage Costs of Limited English."
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
August 2008


Jeff Madrick featured in Le Monde

"70% Of Pre-Retirement Earnings, Guaranteed for Life: Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School, Proposes a Viable Pension Plan That Provides Older Americans with the Financial Stability They Need"
Business Wire
May 27, 2008

"Infrastructure key to long-run U.S. growth--panel"
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
Reuters
May 22, 2008


"The plan to save early retirement" - Economist Teresa Ghilarducci argues that we needn't be chained to our desks forever.
Pat Regnier
Money Magazine
April 23, 2008


"The U.S. Downturn--Ben Bernanke and the Coming Recession."
Willi Semmler
SPIEGEL ONLINE
January 31, 2008.


News Release: Teresa Ghilarducci becomes the new Director of SCEPA

2009 Is Looking a Lot Like 1993
Tom Redburn
The New York Times
October 20, 2007

How to Fix Our Broken Economy
Jeff Madrick
The Nation
October 4, 2007

Bear Stearns and its Hedgefunds.
Willi Semmler
SPIEGEL Online
July 21, 2007

Wie der Irak ein gerechtes Ölparadies werden könnte (Iraq's Oil Reserves and a New Plan for the Middle East).
Willi Semmler
SPIEGEL Online
May 17, 2007


Europa - ein Exempel für die USA (Europe - an example for the USA)
Willi Semmler
SPIEGEL Online
March 24, 2007

Bernard Schwartz Says U.S. Needs Technological Innovation
Radio Interview on 'Bloomberg On the Economy'
March 19, 2007


Is Iraq War the Cheapest or Costliest?
Matt Crenson
The Associated Press

March 16, 2007

Panel To Examine ‘Sky Is Falling' Theories
Jay Akasie
The New York Sun
March 7, 2007

Postwar industrial policy set stage for US progress in IT
Lance Taylor
The Financial Times
January 26, 2007

Goodbye, Horatio Alger
Jeff Madrick
The Nation
January 21, 2007

Global stability rests on sharing the gains
Jan Kregel and William Milberg
The Financial Times
September 5, 2006

Was den Ölpreis bewegtl
Willi Semmler
Spiegel Online
August 3, 2006

Angst vor dem Abwärtstaumel
Willi Semmler
Spiegel Online
May 9, 2006

Die Profiteure des Ölpreisschubs - und seine Verlierer
Willi Semmler
Spiegel Online
March 27, 2006

When Will the Housing Market’s Bubble Burst in the U.S.?
Willi Semmler
Spiegel Online
March 14, 2006
English summary

Review of Freakonomics
E. J. Nell and Willi Semmler
Challenge Magazine
January-February 2006

Bernanke did not Answer the Important Questions
Willi Semmler
Spiegel Online
February 20, 2006
English summary

 

 

 

 

 

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