Understanding American Economic Decline

Herausgeber: Bernstein, Michael A.; Michael a., Bernstein; Adler, David E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays by leading scholars present a novel and systematic analysis of the economic difficulties confronting the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780521456791
• ISBN-10: 0521456797
• Artikelnr.: 22034215

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: writing about the economic future Robert L. Heilbroner; Preface
David E. Adler; Acknowledgements; Part I. Historical Perspectives: 1.
Understanding American economic decline: the contours of the
late-twentieth-century experience Michael A. Bernstein; 2. Chickens home to
roost: from prosperity to stagnation in the postwar US economy David M.
Gordon; Part II. Institutional and Structural Perspectives: 3. Creating and
extracting value: corporate investment behaviour and American economic
performance William Lazonick; 4. Financial institutions and contemporary
economic performance Jane Knodell; 5. Industries, trade and wages James K.
Galbraith and Paulo Du Pin Calmon; 6. A comparative analysis of the sources
of America's relative economic decline Jeffrey A. Hart; Part III. Policy
Perspectives: 7. Right-wing economics in the 1980s: the anatomy of failure
David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf and Samuel Bowles; 8. The new economic
stagnation and the contradictions of economic policy making Robert A.
Blecker; Part IV. Social and Cultural Perspectives: 9. The changing
contours of discrimination: race, gender and structural economic change M.
V. Lee Badgett and Rhonda M. Williams; 10. Troubled times: the cultural
dimensions of economic decline Katherine S. Newman; Part V. Conclusion: 11.
American economics and the American economy in the American century:
doctrinal legacies and contemporary policy problems Michael A. Bernstein;
List of contributors; Index.