Inequality: Radical Institutionalist Views on Race, Gender, Class, and Nation

by William M. Dugger

Overview

Radical institutionalism—a processual paradigm focused on changing the direction of cultural evolution and the function of social provisioning in order to promote the full participation of all—defines inequality as evolving from class exploitation, gender domination, race discrimination, and national predation. Radical institutionalism states that inequality is not determined by genetic differences between groups, innate differences between sexes, or class differences. It is believed that mainstream thinking in economics and related studies is not broad enough to capture the complexity of this social pathology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313300141
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/11/1996
Series:	Contributions in Economics and Economic History , #17
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

WILLIAM M. DUGGER is Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Dugger has published many articles dealing with institutional economics, social economics, and corporate capitalism. He authored Corporate Hegemony (Greenwood Press, 1989) and edited Radical Institutionalism: Contemporary Voices (Greenwood Press, 1989).

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Introduction
Basic Approaches
The Egalitarian Significance of Veblen's Business-Industry Dichotomy by Rick Tilman
Four Modes of Inequality by William M. Dugger
A Holistic-Evolutionary View of Racism, Sexism, and Class Inequality by Howard J. Sherman
Exploitation and Inequality by John E. Elliott
Taxation without Representation: Reconstructing Marx's Theory of Capitalist Exploitation by James Devine
Seen Through a Glass Darkly: Competing Views of Equality and Inequality in Economic Thought by Edythe S. Miller
Crisis of the Welfare State
Choose Equality by Marc R. Tool
Reconstructing the Welfare State in the Aftermath of the Great Capitalist Restoration by James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline B. Stanfield
Social Provisioning and Inequality: Women and the Dual Welfare State by Janice Peterson
Inequality and Government by Zahid Shariff
International Contexts
East Meets West: Dewey, Gandhi, and Instrumental Equality for the 21st Century by Doug Brown
International Inequality and the Economic Process by Brent McClintock
Inequality in the 1980s: An Institutionalist View by Charles M.A. Clark
Case Studies
The War on Drugs: A Legitimate Battle or Another Mode of Inequality? by Jim Horner
Regional Income Inequality Revisited: Lessons from the 100 Lowest Income Counties in the United States by James Peach
Racial Inequality and Radical Institutionalism: A Research Agenda by Steven Shulman
Index

Editorial Reviews

Radical institutionalism<-->a blend of institutionalism, Marxism, and feminism<-->defines inequality as a social pathology, not an inevitable cost of economic progress. Inequality is a product of social processes, and is not determined by alleged genetic differences between races and ethnic groups or differences between sexes or by cultural differences between classes. The 16 articles in this anthology are arranged into four parts: basic ways of understanding inequality; the welfare state crisis; inequality in international contexts; and case studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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