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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460296203321

Titolo

Power, employment, and accumulation : social structures in economic theory and practice / / Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, and Ellen Houston, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70157-X

1-317-46225-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoustonEllen <1965->

StanfordJim

TaylorLance <1940->

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Economics - Sociological aspects

Institutional economics

Power (Social sciences) - Economic aspects

Macroeconomics

Labor market

International economic relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2001 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation""; ""Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution""; ""2 Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show?""; ""3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s""; ""4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics""; ""Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy""

""5 Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions""""6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination""; ""Part III: Power and the Global Economy""; ""7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake?""; ""8



Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities""; ""9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes""; ""10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""; ""Index""