ABSTRACT
This is the third in a series of readers compiled by members of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), representing three sucessive decades of political economic thought. In the introduction to Macroeconomics from a Left Perspective, Book I of The Imperiled Economy (1987), Cigdem Kurdas remarks on the predictive quality of the essays in the 1978 predecessor, U.S. Capitalism in Crisis, in looking ahead to the economic uncertainty and instability of the 1980s. In introducing Book II, Through the Safety Net (1988), David Gordon highlights the turn of 1980s policy debates toward the fashion now known as neoliberalism. Today, we consider again our current economic condition and our prospects for the future, as perceived by the creative and decidedly unorthodox minds of URPE members.
