Research and Publications
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My research areas include: consumption, unpaid work, gender, financial crises and inequality, social costs, transnational households, remittances, money, the public sector, institutional change, and the political economy of macroeconomic policy. I explore diverse economic relations, including exchange, gift, reciprocity, and debt-credit, and understand economic problems as inseparable from social and natural systems.

I have developed connections among areas and approaches that have been deemed separate or distant. I work outside of restrictive dualistic formulations of the economy and beyond rigid spheres of inquiry.

To understand  economic complexities, I: 1) explore micro-macro linkages; 2) build bridges and collaborations across approaches; 3) work to develop non-dualistic frameworks and analyses of social processes and living agents and systems.

Books

• Advancing Frontiers of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee, (co-edited with Tae-Hee Jo) for Routledge’s Advances in Heterodox Economics (2015)
• Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy: a Gendered Post Keynesian-Institutional Analysis, Edward Elgar (2009). Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

Articles

• with Kalpana Khanal, “Remittances and Households within Neoliberalism: A Triple Movement” Journal of Economic Issues (55) 2: 2021 (461-468), 2021.
• with Kalpana Khanal, “Remittances and Households in the Age of Neoliberal Uncertainty” Journal of Economic Issues (53) 2: 515-522, 2019.
• “Towards a Conceptualization of a Debt-Credit Social Process,” a review article in the symposium on Debt to Society by Miranda Joseph, Journal of Cultural Economy, 9 (6): 617-621, 2016
•  with Laura Cardwell. “Evolution of U.S. Household Agency over Stages of Capitalism” Journal of Economic Issues, 50 (2): 542-548, 2016
• “Social Provisioning within a Culture-Nature Life-Process,” Review of Political Economy 27 (3) 390-409, 2015
•  “Economic and Social Class in Theorizing Unpaid Household Activities Under Capitalism,” Journal of Economic Issues 49 (2): 425—433, 2015
•  “Consumption as a Social Process,” Journal of Economic Issues 48 (3): 663-79, 2014
• with Barbara Hopkins. “Gender Dimensions of the US Consumer Borrowing Expansion,” Journal of Economic Issues 48 (2): 501-506, 2014
• “Conspicuous Consumption as Routine Expenditures and its Role in Social Provisioning.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 72 (5): 1183 – 1204, 2013. Reprinted in: Social Costs of Markets and Economic Theory, edited by Frederic S. Lee, 2013, Wiley: Chichester, UK
•  “Connecting Social Provisioning and Functional Finance in a Post Keynesian – Institutional Analysis of the Public Sector” European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention 10 (1): 2013 61-75
• “Inequality-led Financial Instability: A Minskian Structural Analysis of the Subprime Crisis,” co-authored with Luisa Fernandez and Fadhel Kaboub, International Journal of Political Economy 39 (1): 3-27, 2010. [A different version available at the Levy Economics Institute, 2008]
• “What Makes a Bailout Acceptable?” Journal of Economic Issues 43 (2): 319-326, 2009
•  “Deficits and Institutional Theorizing about Households and the State,” Journal of Economic Issues 41 (2): 575-582, 2007
• “Habits of Thought, Agency, and Transformation: An Institutional Approach to Ecological Economics,” Feminist Economics 11 (3): 126-132, 2005.
• "HIV/AIDS in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Global Finance," Oeconomicus, Vol. VI, Winter, 2003.
• "Instrumental and Ceremonial Aspects of Consumer Behavior among Women in the USA", Oeconomicus, Vol. IV, Fall 2000.

  Book Chapters

• “Households in Heterodox Economic Theory.” In The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics, edited by T-H. Jo, L. Chester, and C. D’lppoliti. New York: Routledge, 2018 (188-198)
• with Tae-Hee Jo. “Social Provisioning Process: A Heterodox View of the Economy,” In The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics, edited by T-H. Jo, L. Chester, and C. D’lppoliti. New York: Routledge,  2018 (29-40)
• “A Further Veblenian Articulation of a Monetary Theory of Production.” In Marx, Veblen, and the Foundations of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of John F. Henry, edited by Tae-Hee Jo and Frederic S. Lee. London: Routledge, 2015 (102-123)
•  with Tae-Hee Jo. “Frederic S. Lee’s Contribution to Heterodox Economics.” In Advancing the Frontiers of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee, edited by Tae-Hee Jo and Zdravka Todorova. London: Routledge, 2015 (1-18); Reprinted as: “Las contribuciones de Frederic S. Lee a la economía heterodoxa,” Revista de Economía Crítica, 19, primer semestre 2015 (215-230)
• “Consumption in the Context of Social Provisioning and Capitalism: beyond Consumer Choice and Aggregates.” In Advancing the Frontiers of Heterodox Economics: Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee, eds. Tae-Hee Jo and Zdravka Todorova. London: Routledge, 2015 (230-248)
• “Households.” In Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, (ed.) John E. King, Edward Elgar, Northampton, USA, 2012

Working Papers

• "A Veblenian Feminist Articulation of Monetary Theory of Production" (2015).
• "From Monetary Theory of Production to Culture-Nature Life Process: A Feminist-Istitutional Elaborations of Social Provisioning" (2014)
• "Consumption as a Social Process within Capitalism and Social Provisioning: Implications for Heterodox Economics" (2013)
• "Minskyan and Feminist Analysis of Financial Instability and Social Provisioning" (2010)
• "Employer of Last Resort and Feminist Economics: Socialization of Investment and Social Provisioning" (2009)
• with Fadhel Kaboub and Maria Louisa Fernandez. "On Democratizing Financial Turmoil: A Minskian Analysis of the Sub-Prime Crisis," Levy Economics Institute, Working Paper # 548 (2008).
• "Toward a Feminist Post Keynesian Approach to Monetary Production and Social Provisioning" (2005). Figure 1 & Figure 2
• "Incorporating Gender in Keynes’s Theory of Monetary Production: An Institutionalist Perspective" (2005). Handout
• Entrepreneurship Does not Equal Development: A Note on Bulgaria's EU Candidacy and Competitiveness (2005).
• Theorizing about Agency, Gender and Environment in the Context of Monetary Production and Living Systems (2004)

Media Publications

• “Why Gender Matters in Macroeconomics?” New Deal 2.0 blog, Huffington Post, and The Brecht Forum (Dec. 29, 2009)
• “How will you use your tax refund? If you receive one…” (Kansas City Aurora, 04-19-04)
• “What is Money, and Where Does it Come From?” (Kansas City Aurora, 03-29-04)
• "Community Economists in Action" (Kansas City Aurora, 03-29-04)
• “Consumer Advocacy or Financial Industry Interests?” (Kansas City Aurora, 03-15-04)
•  “8 of March – Sell or Forget!” (Kansas City Aurora, 03-08-04)
• “Consumers Have High Hopes and Low Net-worth for the New Year” (Kansas City Aurora, 12-29-03)
• "Where did the Tax Cut Refund Checks Go? (Kansas City Aurora” (12-22-2003)
• “Consumer Confidence or Wishful Thinking?” (Kansas City Aurora, 12-01-2003)
•  “Black Friday's Consumer Spending and Debt Intentions” (Kansas City Aurora, 12-01-2003)
• “Who is Going Broke – Uncle Sam or You?” (Kansas City Aurora, 11-17-2003)
•  “How do Firms and the Economy Benefit from Parents:  Parenthood as a Part of the Production Process” (Kansas City Aurora, 11-10-2003)
• “Myths and Misconceptions About the UN” (Kansas City Aurora, 10-20-2003).