C-SPAN
Watch President Pavlina Tcherneva on C-SPAN: “Labor Market Dislocations and the Impact of Climate Change”
On Monday, August 18, Levy President Pavlina R. Tcherneva appeared on C-SPAN along with Representative Sean Casten (D-IL) and other experts.
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.
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
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Economist, Author, and Speaker
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Latest Publications
by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Should full employment be a policy objective?
(with K. Mohr) in Intermediate Macroeconomics: Theory, Policy and Competing Perspectives, Bougrine et al (eds), Elgar 2025. pp 143-164.
The Job Guarantee: Modern Money Theory’s proposal for full employment and price stability
The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory, Y. Nersisyan and L.R. Wray (eds.), Elgar 2024
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
Featured Press
Recent Articles
C-SPAN: Press Briefing on the Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium
C-SPAN
On Monday, August 18, Levy President Pavlina R. Tcherneva appeared on C-SPAN along with Representative Sean Casten (D-IL) and other experts.
Tcherneva discusses August 2025 BLS report
Marketplace
President Pavlina R. Tcherneva weighs in on recent BLS report: “It wasn’t terribly surprising”.
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.
Speaking
Selected Talks
Introduction, Former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer
Bard College (video)
“UN Women: Engendering Fiscal Space”
"UN Women: Engendering Fiscal Space", Side Event at UN Women 2025 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development & FfD4 Conference