Description
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.
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
