After the Waste Land: A Democratic Economics for the Year 2000This 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. |
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Economics as If People Mattered | 3 |
Life on the Long Roller Coaster | 16 |
The Obsolescence of New Deal Progressivism | 27 |
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