Book and book chapters
- Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The power to rebuild the American middle class, published by Praeger Press, July 2010
- "A Green Energy Manufacturing Stimulus Strategy", chapter from the book Green Energy Economies: The search for clean and renewable energy, Transaction Publishers, 2014.
- "Green jobs in a sustainable economy", chapter from the book, "Mandate for Change: Policies and leadership for 2009 and beyond", Lexington Books, January 2009, part one, part two, part three
Email: jonathanrynn@gmail.com
From American Prospect: What else could we do with $1.9 trillion?
NewDeal20 blog posts (Roosevelt Institute)
You can see a list of my blog posts from Grist Magazine, or see my web page there.
The Economy is an Ecosystem, reposted at EnergyBulletin.net
Labor Radio Interview, October 12, 2012 at 12:28
Dylan Ratigan interview on Radio Free Dylan
Presentations at conferences
- Restructuring the Economy"[Powerpoint], presented at the Economic Democracy Conference, Madison Wisconsin, October 11-14th, 2012
- Manufacturing Green Prosperity, presented at the International Green Energy Conference, Arlington, Virginia, July 28th, 2011 (Google document)
- Singing the Transportation Electric: What would an all-electric transportation system look like? [Powerpoint], presented at the conference “Sustainable Transit”, held at the City College of New York, May 7th, 2010, by the University Transportation Research Center
- A systems-based, production-centered theory of political economy[PDF]Paper presented to the 2003 meeting of the American Political Science Association
- Conference on Reindustrialization, Columbia University, November 2001 videos
SVG demonstration of production-centered model of economy
Simulation of production system
Other articles on the Web
- Is U.S. manufacturing still important to the economy: Yes, written for Costco Connection, June 2013
- Are tighter regulations damaging to economic growth and prosperity?", written for ABC-Clio's series on Enduring Questions, 2012
- How do we build a progressive majority? ThePeoplesView.net, January 5, 2011 (DailyKos cross-post)
- How to enter the green economy, in Foreign Policy in Focus, June 13, 2008
- How cities can eliminate coal-based electricity in the U.S., in CitiesGoGreen, April 2008
Dissertation
Dissertation title: The Power to Create Wealth: A systems-based theory of the rise and decline of the Great Powers in the 20th century
Political Science, The City University of New York, 2001
Dissertation chapters [All PDF]
- What is a Great Power? (Ch 1)
- Theories of Rise and Fall (Ch 2)
- A critique of neoclassical growth theory (Ch 3)
- A theory of systems (Ch 4)
- A theory of political systems (Ch 5)
- A theory of economic systems: Categories and stages of production (Ch 6)
- A theory of economic systems: The production system as a whole (Ch 7)
- A theory of economic systems: capital and distribution (Ch 8)
- A theory of political economic systems: Defining systems and capabilities (Ch 9)
- A theory of political economic systems: Rise and decline (Ch 10)
- Conclusion and summary
- Global Machinery Production in the 20th Century (Appendix)
- Bibliography
Spreadsheets with data
Unpublished articles
- Why Manufacturing and infrastructureare central to the economy[PDF 33-page essay]
- Democracy Or Disaster (8 page essay)
- Democracy or Disaster Powerpoint presentation(In development)
Guest Writers
- Jim Haughton's poems
- Olivier Mathey's Beyond Capitalism
- Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in SpaceRadio broadcast of 7/23/06 speech
- President Eisenhower's speech on the Cross of Iron
Posts from Sanders Research Associates
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- The Rise and Decline of the Great American Corporation
- Say Dubai to the American Economy
- How to succeed in destroying the U.S. without really trying
- Is the Sun Setting on the U.S. Military Empire?
- Extreme Makeover, Global Edition - Episode One
- Extreme Makeover, Global Edition, Production Episode 2
- Extreme Makeover, Global Edition, Final Cut
- Surviving the Era of Peak Automobile, part I The problem
- Surviving the Era of Peak Automobile, part II A Solution
- Waking up from the American Dream
- Why a democratic economy would be a more efficient economy, Part 1
- Why a democratic economy would be a more efficient economy, Part 2
- The Economy is an Ecosystem
- Economic Growth Technological progress or stealing from the bank
- Shop until the planet drops
- Singing the nation electric, Part 1 Fuels and Electrical Use
- Singing the nation electric, part 2 post-oil democracy