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9780765606303

Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

by Houston; Brant
  • ISBN13:

    9780765606303

  • ISBN10:

    0765606305

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781317462255

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-02-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This collection of essays by leading heterodox economists and policy analysts from across North America focuses on the importance of social structures, institutions, and practices to the functioning of real-world economies and the formulation of economic policy. They address a variety of topical issues including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation
3(20)
Jim Stanford
Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution
Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show?
23(43)
David R. Howell
Ellen Houston
William Milberg
Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s
66(14)
Juliet B. Schor
The Future of Egalitarian Politics
80(27)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy
Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions
107(31)
Thomas I. Palley
Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination
138(23)
Heather Boushey
Part III: Power and the Global Economy
Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake?
161(31)
Jim Stanford
Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities
192(27)
William Milberg
Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes
219(19)
Isabella Bakker
Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization
238(21)
Lance Taylor
About the Editors and Contributors 259(2)
Index 261

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