Dear Friends, Comrades and Colleagues, Please sign the petition below urging action to reduce climate catastrophe now. Though absolutely...

Ron Baiman discusses his 2021 paper in this podcast. The paper: In Support of a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy (REME): A Global...

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Put simply, there are two ways of crossing into (accelerated) catastrophic climate change in the next decade or two. One is through...

A Global Green New Deal (GGND) that Includes Arctic Sea-Ice Climate Triage and Carbon Cycle Climate Restoration, and that, following...

By William Barclay, Ph.D. and Bruce Parry, Ph.D. This is a PDF of a Power Point presentation by the authors to the meeting of CPEG in...

In the first six months of the COVID-19 slump, unemployment levels in retail trade and oil and gas extraction were some of the highest...

The cost of testing all workers, students, young children in childcare and daycare programs, and people in group quarters: including...

The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three ScenariosWhat will the recovery from the slump driven by COVID-19 look like? There are arguments for at...

In 2000 the United States was the world’s largest importer of petroleum, taking in over 10 million barrels/day (bbl/d), consuming...

Last year was the tenth since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) and the third of trump’s presidency. Trump came into office...

Ron Baiman, Bill Barclay, Luis Diaz-Perez, Caitlyn Prosapio, June Zaccone March 21, 2015 Complete report is accessible here. Executive...

Ms. Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter Chicago Sun Times Sept. 12, 2019 Dear Ms. Spielman, It has come to our attention that in a 9/11/2019...

Contrary to claims by financial lobbyists, neither the Traders who would pay it, or the Exchanges who would collect it, could avoid this...

What has happened to the US economy since the Great Recession - and why?  Is the Trump hype of "the best economy ever" really true?  Or...

In this paper I will demonstrate: A) that the standard economics theory of rent (and most of the rest of mainstream economics) is...

Bruce Parry is an independent researcher in Chicago and a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG at CPEGonline.org). He...

I frequently start a class discussion of “Supply and Demand” with a simple question to anyone in the class. If you were a pizza producer,...

Bill Barclay worked in finance for almost a quarter century.  He is a founding member of CPEG as well as DSA. He has written extensively...

CPEG member Ron Baiman 3/13/2019 talk on capitalist, socialist, anti-rentier economics, and a Green New Deal and Marshall Plan at Henry ...