I: Economics as Politics; 1: Economics as If People Mattered; 2: Life on the Long Roller Coaster; 3: The Obsolescence of New Deal Progressivism; II: Anatomy of a Crisis; 4: The Arithmetic of Economic Decline; 5: The Rise and Demise of the Postwar Social Structure of Accumulation; 6: The Road to Stagflation; 7: Solving the Productivity Puzzle; III: The Debacle of Right-Wing Economics; 8: Right-Wing Economics: A Program for Business Ascendancy; 9: Right-Wing Economics: The Human Costs; 10: Right-Wing Economics: The Anatomy of Failure; 11: The Economics of a 3½-Day Weekend; IV: The Promise of Democratic Economics; 12: A Democratic Economy for the Year 2000; 13: Beyond the Twin Deficits; 14: Making Democracy Work
Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf
In this sequel to their Beyond the Waste Land ( LJ 9/1/83), the authors--noted economists of the American left--write that the American economy has been in decline since the mid-1960s and that only a truly democratic economic system can reverse this trend. They suggest that key policies should end the wasting of resources that burdens the economy, and they outline a plan for improving productivity, growth, full employment, and economic justice. Presenting their evidence very effectively, the authors offer a critique of Reaganomics that makes this book, like its predecessor, an important acquisition for any library.-- Richard C. Schiming, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
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