After the Waste Land: Democratic Economics for the Year 2000 - Softcover

Bowles, Samuel; Gordon, David M.; Weisskopf, Thomas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873326458 ISBN 13: 9780873326452

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Samuel Bowles heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute. He previously taught economics at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Siena. He is the author, most recently, of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (2004), A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution (2011, with Herbert Gintis) and articles in Science, Nature, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and other academic journals. He has also served as an economic advisor to presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy and Jesse Jackson, and former South African President Nelson Mandela and has taught crash courses in economics to trade unionists, community activists and others.

From Library Journal:

In this sequel to their Beyond the Waste Land ( LJ 9/1/83), the authors--noted economists of the American left--write that the American economy has been in decline since the mid-1960s and that only a truly democratic economic system can reverse this trend. They suggest that key policies should end the wasting of resources that burdens the economy, and they outline a plan for improving productivity, growth, full employment, and economic justice. Presenting their evidence very effectively, the authors offer a critique of Reaganomics that makes this book, like its predecessor, an important acquisition for any library.
- Richard C. Schiming, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0873326458
• ISBN 13: 9780873326452
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288