Autorentext

Victor D. Lippit is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside.

Klappentext

Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays presented in this book offer a representative sampling of the issues and methodologies involved in the study of radical political economy.

Inhalt

Introduction, Victor D. Lippit; Part I Labor; Chapter 1 What Do Bosses Do?, Stephen A. Marglin; Chapter 2 Segmented Labor Markets, Richard Edwards; Chapter 3 Losing Touch, Stephen A. Marglin; Part II Class; Chapter 4 An Approach to Class Analysis, Howard J. Sherman; Chapter 5 Power, Property, and Class, Richard Wolff, Resnick Stephen; Part III Discrimination; Chapter 6 The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, Heidi I. Hartmann; Chapter 7 Racial Inequality, Michael Reich; Part IV Macroeconomic Instability; Chapter 8 Marxian and Post Keynesian Developments in the Sphere of Money, Credit and Finance, Robert Pollin; Chapter 9 Power, Accumulation, and Crisis, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Samuel Bowles; Part V Economic Development; Chapter 10 Theories of Finance and the Third World, Laurence Harris; Chapter 11 The Concept of the Surplus in Economic Development, Victor D. Lippit; Chapter 12 Institutional and Organizational Framework for Egalitarian Agricultural Growth, Azizur Rahman Khan; Part VI Market Socialism; Chapter 13 "Market Socialism" and Its Critics, Alec Nove; Chapter 14 Toward a Socialism for the Future, in the Wake of the Demise of the Socialism of the Past, Thomas E. Weisskopf; Chapter 15 Socialist Economic Development in the Post-Soviet Era, Victor D. Lippit; Part VII VII The Environment; Chapter 16 The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Chapter 17 Marxian Crisis Theory and the Contradictions of Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism, Thomas E. Weisskopf;