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List of contents
Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution 2 Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show? 3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s 4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy 5 Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions 6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination Part III: Power and the Global Economy 7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake? 8 Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities 9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes 10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization
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Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, Brant Houston
Summary
This is a collection of original essays by leading critical economists and policy analysts addressing the importance of social structures and institutions to the functioning of real-world economies and the formulation of economic policy.
