ABSTRACT

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.

part I|32 pages

Economics as Politics

chapter 1|13 pages

Economics as If People Mattered

chapter 2|11 pages

Life on the Long Roller Coaster

part II|86 pages

Anatomy of a Crisis

chapter 4|12 pages

The Arithmetic of Economic Decline

chapter 6|17 pages

The Road to Stagflation

chapter 7|22 pages

Solving the Productivity Puzzle

part III|66 pages

The Debacle of Right-Wing Economics

part IV|49 pages

The Promise of Democratic Economics

chapter 12|12 pages

A Democratic Economy for the Year 2000

chapter 13|18 pages

Beyond the Twin Deficits

chapter 14|17 pages

Making Democracy Work