Political economy and contemporary capitalism: radical perspectives on economic theory and policy

1. Introduction: Political Economy Today, Political Economy Tomorrow / Dawn Saunders

Sect. I. Conceptual Approaches to Political Economy

2. Primer in Political Economy / Bruce Pietrykowski

3. Methodology of Radical Political Economics / Mathieu Carlson

4. Feminist Political Economy: A Primer / Ellen Mutari

5. Class and Evolution: An Institutionalist View / William M. Dugger

6. Class and Evolution: A Marxian View / Howard J. Sherman

7. Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchal Economics: Growing a Liberated Economy / Julie Matthaei

Sect. II. Capitalism's Dynamic Path: Accumulation and the Rate of Profit

8. Rate of Profit and Stagnation in the U.S. Economy / Fred Moseley

9. Global Relevance of Marxian Crisis Theory / Jonathan P. Goldstein

10. Long Waves of Capitalist Development and the Future of Capitalism / Ismael Hossein-Zadeh

11. On Transformational Growth: Interview with Edward J. Nell / Edward J. Nell and Steven Pressman

Sect. III. How we Live: Employment, Labor, and Income Distribution

12. "Reserve Army of Labor" and the "Natural Rate of Unemployment": Can Marx, Kalecki, Friedman, and Wall Street All Be Wrong? / Robert Pollin

13. Political Economy of Employment Inequality: Job Access and Day Differentials / Heather Boushey

14. Falling Wages, Widening Gaps: U.S. Income Distribution at the Millennium / Chris Tilly

15. Single, with Children: The Economic Plight of Single Mothers / Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly

16. U.S. Labor Faces an Identity Crisis / George DeMartino

Sect. IV. Examining Money: Finance and Inflation

17. Role of Credit and Commercial Banks in the Creation of Money: A Post-Keynesian Interpretation in the Circuitist Tradition / Louis-Philippe Rochon

18. Hidden Inflation: An Estimate of the Cost-of-Living Inflation Rate / Jim Devine

19. P-R-I-C-E of Full Employment in Monopoly Capitalism / Elmer P. Chase III

20. Promise of Finance: Banks and Community Development / Carole Biewener

Sect. V. Global Political Economy

21. What Do Undergrads Really Need to Know About Trade and Finance? / Matias Vernengo

22. Rate of Profit in the Postwar Mexican Economy, 1950-1993 / Abelardo Marina and Fred Moseley

23. Globalization, Technology, and Skill Formation in Capitalism / Cyrus Bina and Chuck Davis

24. Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives / David F. Ruccio

25. Lessons from Economic Transition in Russia and China / David M. Kotz

26. Asian Financial Crisis: What Went Wrong? / Ilene Grabel

27. Roots of the Asian Financial Crisis: A Story of Export-Led Growth and Liberalized Capital Flows / Stephanie Seguino

28. Mainstream Responses to the East Asian Crisis: A Radical Interpretation / Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett

Sect. VI. Exploring Policy Questions: Theory and Applications

29. Rise and Fall of the U.S. Welfare State / Anwar M. Shaikh and E. Ahmet Tonak

30. Five Easy Pieces on the Economics of Tax Justice / Max B. Sawicky

31. Why the Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Case for Price Regulation / Ron Baiman

32. Broadening the Concept of Pay Equity: Lessons for a Changing Economy / Deborah M. Figart and Heidi I. Hartmann

33. Earned Income Tax Credit: What It Does and Doesn't Do / Robert Cherry and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

34. Empty Bellies, Empty Promises: Welfare "Reform" in the Nineties / Kimberly Christensen

35. U.S. Health Care System: A Reproduction Crisis / Jerome Joffe

36. Political Economy of Social Security Reform in the United States / Teresa Ghilarducci.