Capitalism on Trial

Edited by Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin

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Abstract: This volume presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Thomas E. Weisskopf, one of the most prominent contributors to the field of radical economics. Beginning his academic career at Harvard before moving to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Professor Weisskopf has spent the past forty years exploring through highly innovative and rigorous research the questions of economic equality, social justice and environmental responsibility. The chapters in this book reflect the main subjects of Professor Weisskopf’s work and seek to foster continued innovation in these research areas.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781781003602
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Three's a crowd: my dinner party with Karl, Leon and Maynard

Samuel Bowles

Ch 2 Theses on Weisskopf

Robert Pollin

Ch 3 Comment on Bowles and Pollin

Diane Flaherty

Ch 4 The military and economic development in Pakistan

Shahrukh Khan

Ch 5 Socialism: the twentieth century and the twenty-first century

Minqi Li

Ch 6 Economic growth: the great slowdown (1980-2000) and recovery (2000-2010)

Mark Weisbrot

Ch 7 Comment on Khan, Li, and Weisbrot

James K. Boyce

Ch 8 The wealth-power connection

Arthur MacEwan

Ch 9 The rise and decline of patriarchal capitalism

Nancy Folbre

Ch 10 Comment on MacEwan and Folbre: reflections on the "Wealth-Power-Inequality-Gender Connection"

Andrew Zimbaist

Ch 11 The rising strength of management, high unemployment, and slow growth; revisiting Okun's Law

Michael Reich

Ch 12 Reducing growth to achieve environmental sustainability: the role of work hours

Kyle Knight, Eugene A. Rosa and Juliet B. Schor

Ch 13 Comment on Reich, Knight, Rosa and Schor

Michael Ash

Ch 14 Confronting those affirmative action grumbles

William Darity

Ch 15 Screening for honesty and motivation in the workplace: what can affirmative action do?

Elaine McCrate

Ch 16 A stimulus for affirmative action? The impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on women and minority workers in construction

Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Ch 17 Comment on Darity, McCrate, and Wicks-Lim

Randy Albelda

Ch 18 Social justice through affirmative action in India: an assessment

Ashwini Deshpande

Ch 19 Comment on Deshpande

Hwok Aun Lee

Ch 20 How big is too big? On the social efficiency of the financial sector in the United States

Gerald Epstein and James Crotty

Ch 21 Unpacking the US labor share

James Heintz

Ch 22 Comment on Epstein, Crotty, and Heintz: humanizing political economy

John Miller

Ch 23 Social structures of accumulation, the rate of profit and economic crises

David M. Kotz

Ch 24 Exploitation without subsumption: the scope and limits of proto-industrial exploitation

Gilbert Skillman

Ch 25 Morally arbitrary economic advantage

Frank Thompson

Ch 26 Comment on Kotz, Skillman, and Thopmson

Fred Moseley

Ch 27 Presentation to the Festschrift Conference at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1st, 2011

Thomas E. Weisskopf

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