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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797281703321

Autore

Bowles Samuel

Titolo

After the waste land : a democratic economics for the year 2000 / / Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-315-70662-8

1-317-47740-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GordonDavid M

WeisskopfThomas E

Disciplina

330.973

Soggetti

Radical economics

United States Economic conditions 1981-2001

United States Economic policy 1981-1993

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1990 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Tables""; ""Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I. Economics as Politics""; ""Chapter 1. Economics as If People Mattered""; ""Chapter 2. Life on the Long Roller Coaster""; ""Chapter 3. The Obsolescence of New Deal Progressivism""; ""II. Anatomy of a Crisis""; ""Chapter 4. The Arithmetic of Economic Decline""; ""Chapter 5. The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation""; ""Chapter 6. The Road to Stagflation""; ""Chapter 7. Solving the Productivity Puzzle""

""III. The Debacle of Right-Wing Economics""""Chapter 8. Right-Wing Economics: A Program for Business Ascendancy""; ""Chapter 9. Right-Wing Economics: The Human Costs""; ""Chapter 10. Right-Wing Economics: The Anatomy of Failure""; ""Chapter 11. The Economics of a 3 1/2-Day Weekend""; ""IV. The Promise of Democratic Economics""; ""Chapter 12. A Democratic Economy for the Year 2000""; ""Chapter 13. Beyond the Twin Deficits""; ""Chapter 14. Making Democracy Work""; ""Frequently Cited References""; ""Notes""; ""Index""