After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317477402
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Library Journal

Three economics professors update, revise, and expand their 1983 Beyond the waste land; a democratic alternative to economic decline. They perceive that the state of both the economy and democracy are in a tailspin, locked inexorably together. But contrary to all available evidence, they believe that a grassronts movement can still make it right. Also available in paper (unseen), $15.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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