Highlights the Economic Performance Insurance (EPI) plan to tackle the New Deal's unsolved problems. This book explains that the indignity and physical suffering of the jobless themselves do not have to continue, job discrimination can be combated, and our national income will rise as "non-production" declines.
Based on the premiss that the US, in the past two decades, has been in the midst of an economic-social-cultural transformation in which the middle class has paid a heavy price, this volume envisions a drastic "Jeffersonian" revolution. It proposes a fundamental shift toward economic nationalism and the basic political reconstruction that will ......
ISBN-13: 9781566430364
(Hardback)
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
Based on the premiss that the US, in the past two decades, has been in the midst of an economic-social-cultural transformation in which the middle class has paid a heavy price, this volume envisions a drastic "Jeffersonian" revolution. It proposes a fundamental shift toward economic nationalism and the basic political reconstruction that will enable it. The book postulates that major reform will be necessary. In the light of an unresponsive political system, the only way to enact an economic nationalist programme is to make major issues subject to popular decision, firmly restrict campaign funding, open elections to multiple political parties and proportional voting, and make direct and issue-based democracy possible for the first time. The authors offer a set of solutions that they feel will enable middle Americans to take back their governments and make them work for the public interest again.
ISBN-13: 9781566430357
(Paperback)
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
The various studies in this book constitute a useful resource of the current level of knowledge on the pattern of, and trends in, regional disparities in the European Union. What they tend to show is that there remains enormous diversity in terms of production structures, responsiveness to exogenous stimuli, behaviour of labour markets and growth ......
Using detailed case studies with statistical analysis In Search of Economic Success assesses comparatively the `market liberal' belief in free markets, limited government and the trade-off between economic efficiency and social justice. Kenworthy argues that the key to economic success lies in combining competition with cooperation. Among advanced industrialized nations, the countries achieving the best economic performance results over the past three decades have been the most committed to combining competition and cooperation. Those faring worst rely predominantly on atomistic, individualistic competition. In the end, the comparative record strongly supports a focus on cooperation-inducing institutions.
China and the Contradictions of "Market Socialism"
This study examines the tensions growing within "market socialism", then explores the class forces that produced it and the social dislocation that it is generating. It analyzes the growing tensions between China and the USA and their roots in China's push to lead in the world market.
Outlines the structure of the Tanzanian economy, considering the impact of previous policies, as well as current stabilisation and adjustment measures, on the Tanzanian population. The text rejects official statistics as failing to give an accurate picture of Tanzanian economic development.
This volume focusses on the profound impact of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. Contributors discuss the historic role of defence expenditure, patterns of regional change, retructuring the military-industrial complex, the impact and transformation of regional economies and the question of defence spending as urban policy.
