Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, Brant Houston

Power, Employment and Accumulation

Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of original essays by leading critical economists and policy analysts addressing the importance of social structures and institutions to the functioning of real-world economies and the formulation of economic policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780765606303
• ISBN-10: 0765606305
• Artikelnr.: 21765930

Autorenporträt

Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, Brant Houston

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Power
Employment
and Accumulation Part I: Power
Work
and Distribution 2 Skill Mismatch
Bureaucratic Burden
and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show? 3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s 4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy 5 Conflict
Distribution
and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions 6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination Part III: Power and the Global Economy 7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake? 8 Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities 9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes 10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization
Fixed Exchange Rates
and Market-Driven Destabilization