The Case for a Job Guarantee
New Book
The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity 2020) is the ultimate guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. It is essential reading for anyone interested in social justice and building a fairer economy.
Job Guarantee for Europe
FEPS
As Europe faces structural unemployment, this policy brief by MEP Aurore Lalucq and Prof. Pavlina Tcherneva proposes the establishment of a public Job Guarantee for job creation in areas of unmet social need, prioritising care and environmental services.
Healing Patient Europe
Vatican
Why does the world need an accessible vaccine and accessible health care? Europe, Zero COVID, and global public health.
Debate with Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore on inflation
The Hill
Associate professor of Economics at Bard College, Pavlina Tcherneva, and Stephen Moore, debate whether the Inflation Reduction Act will actually reduce inflation.
Forget UBI, says an economist: It’s time for universal basic jobs
The Los Angeles Times
A conversation with Cory Doctorow about “The Case For a Job Guarantee” for La Times Books.
A Job Guarantee Costs Far Less Than Unemployment
Foreign Affairs Magazine
The Bold Policy for Not Just Weathering the Crisis, but Coming Out Better
The effects of unemployment spread like a virus
Marketplace
Tcherneva speaks with David Brancaccio about how to inoculate against unemployment with a federal Job Guarantee.
Jobs, Guaranteed
WNYC | The Brian Lehrer Show
Tcherneva joins Brian Lehrer to discuss The Case for a Job Guarantee, Modern Monetary Theory and why it allows for full employment at a living wage.
30 million Americans are unemployed. Here’s how to employ them.
Vox – Q&A by David Roberts
A conversation with the economist pushing the once-radical idea of a federal job guarantee.
How Will We Reopen The Economy After The Coronavirus Crisis?
The New Yorker – Article by Sheelah Kolhatkar
“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line,” says economist Pavlina Tcherneva. If the problem is a shortage of jobs, the government should create them. Hiring the unemployed is the most straightforward solution to mass unemployment.
The Nordic Way to Economic Rescue
The New York Times – Article by Peter Goodman
Tcherneva on why we have unlimited fiscal space to finance the COVID response and should take every possible step to keep people in their jobs.
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Economist, Author, and Speaker
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Latest Publications
by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Seismic Shifts in Economic Theory and Policy: from the Bernanke Doctrine to Modern Money Theory
(with E. Tymoigne), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2023 (working paper version)
The Job Guarantee and Economic Democracy: Why a legally-enforceable right to employment is needed and how it can be implemented
Revue Européenne du droit (in English and in French), Vol. 3 Spring 2022
Decommodifying Work: The Power of a Job Guarantee
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Ferreras, Battilana, Meda, (eds), University of Chicago Press, 2022
A Job Guarantee for Europe: Economic policy innovation for Stability, Security And Sustainability
Foundation for European Progressive Studies Policy Brief (with Lalucq), July 2022
Featured Press
Recent Articles
Debate with Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore on inflation
The Hill
Associate professor of Economics at Bard College, Pavlina Tcherneva, and Stephen Moore, debate whether the Inflation Reduction Act will actually reduce inflation.
In Conversation with Thomas Piketty
Bard
Pavlina Tcherneva interviews French economist Thomas Piketty as part of the first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, a project of the Open Society University Network’s Economic Democracy Initiative.
A Just Transition Needs a Job Guarantee
Project Syndicate
A job guarantee is necessary both for managing the disruptions wrought by global warming and for achieving a smooth, just transition to a low-carbon economy.
Speaking
Selected Talks
The Role of Women in Heterodox Economics
Universidad de Nacional-Colombia
In conversation with Olivier De Scutter
UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Rethinking Public Policy
CEBRI: Brazilian Center for International Relations, Rio de Janeiro