ABSTRACT

This volume covers the theoretical method, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade and finance, development, and policy of economic theory. It incorporates various alternative approaches as well as a broad spectrum of policy issues.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

Political Economy Today, Political Economy Tomorrow

section I|45 pages

Conceptual Approaches to Political Economy

chapter 4|7 pages

Feminist Political Economy

A Primer

chapter 5|6 pages

Class and Evolution

An Institutionalist View

chapter 6|6 pages

Class and Evolution

A Marxian View

chapter 7|8 pages

Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchal Economics

Growing a Liberated Economy

section II|36 pages

Capitalism's Dynamic Path

section III|44 pages

How We Live

chapter 12|9 pages

The “Reserve Army of Labor” and the “Natural Rate of Unemployment”

Can Marx, Kalecki, Friedman, and Wall Street All Be Wrong?

chapter 13|10 pages

The Political Economy of Employment Inequality

Job Access and Pay Differentials

chapter 14|10 pages

Falling Wages, Widening Gaps

U.S. Income Distribution at the Millennium

chapter 15|6 pages

Single, with Children

The Economic Plight of Single Mothers

section IV|38 pages

Examining Money

chapter 17|10 pages

The Role of Credit and Commercial Banks in the Creation of Money

A Post-Keynesian Interpretation in the Circuitist Tradition

chapter 18|9 pages

Hidden Inflation

An Estimate of the Cost-of-Living Inflation Rate

chapter 20|9 pages

The Promise of Finance

Banks and Community Development

section V|70 pages

The Global Political Economy

chapter 24|7 pages

Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World

Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives

chapter 26|7 pages

The Asian Financial Crisis

What Went Wrong?

chapter 27|11 pages

The Roots of the Asian Financial Crisis

A Story of Export-Led Growth and Liberalized Capital Flows

chapter 28|9 pages

Mainstream Responses to the East Asian Crisis

A Radical Interpretation

section VI|86 pages

Exploring Policy Questions

chapter 31|10 pages

Why the Emperor Has No Clothes

The Neoclassical Case for Price Regulation

chapter 32|9 pages

Broadening the Concept of Pay Equity

Lessons for a Changing Economy

chapter 33|8 pages

The Earned Income Tax Credit

What It Does and Doesn't Do

chapter 34|10 pages

Empty Bellies, Empty Promises

Welfare “Reform” in the Nineties

chapter 35|9 pages

The U.S. Health Care System

A Reproduction Crisis