1st Edition

After the Waste Land Democratic Economics for the Year 2000

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf