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After the waste land : a democratic economics for the year 2000 / Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowles, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radical economics.
- United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.
- United States.
- United States--Economic policy--1981-1993.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- First published 1990 by M.E. Sharpe.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-70662-8
- 1-317-47740-5
- 9781315706627
- OCLC:
- 958109230
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