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Economics

Book review, The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions, Jeremy Attack and Larry Neal, editors (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Review of Political Economy, upcoming July 2010.

Book review, Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s, by Laura Hapke (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).  April 2009.  Published by the Economic History Association on EH.Net in May 2009.

Entry on "Fiscal Policy", entry on "Public Works Policy", entry on "Economic Stabilization" and entry on "Equity/Debt Capitalization" for Booms and Busts: An Economics Encyclopedia (M.E. Sharpe) to be published in 2009.  January and March 2009.

Book review, The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Years, by Randall E. Parker (Edward Elgar, 2007) in the American Economist. June 2008. 

Book review, Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command and Change, 3rd Edition, by Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards and Frank Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2005), Science and Society, June 2008.

Economics for Everyone (a 65 page primer on economics in plain language) was published July 2007 and is available from the publisher print-on-demand and from amazon.com.  Here too is the .pdf file.  

You can watch a streaming video of the first Hardfire cable televison show I did to promote Economics for Everyone in September 2007, which was on supply and demand, the drug war, rent control, farm subsidies.  This second program on the book December 2007 is about the role for government in society, the welfare state, paternalism and social security.

"Questioning Development Orthodoxy" on the foreign aid industry in the New School Economic Review September 2007.   The paper combines classical political economy, Hegelian philosophy and institutional economics.

Book Review of Mark Skousen's A Tale of Two Cities on the Chicago and Vienna schools of free-market economic thought in American Economist October 2006 (and here).

Review (1, 2) of David DeRosa's In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case Against a New International Financial Architecture in Public Budgeting and Finance, 2002.

"Harmonization of International Acounting Standards: Processes and Policy Steps" in National Public Accountant on how transactions drive policy and how this works in international capital markets (1, 2, 3, or here), 1992.

Government Accountability

Article in Journal of Government Financial Management called "Outsourcing and Financial Systems Integration in the Federal Government,” Spring 2001.

Opinion piece in Journal of Government Financial Management, "Getting it right the first time: Accounting, auditing, financial systems and the federal government", 2002.  

Paper, "A Case Study in U.S. Government Financial Management in Cross-Disciplinary Teams" in Public Budgeting and Finance about the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 1997.