Radical Political Economy

Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays presented in this book offer a representative sampling of the issues and methodologies involved in the study of radical political economy. Introduction, Victor D. Lippit; Part I Labor; Chapter 1 What Do Bosses Do?, Stephen A. Marglin; Chapter 2 Segmented Labor Markets, Richard Edwards; Chapter 3 Losing Touch, Stephen A. Marglin; Part II Class; Chapter 4 An Approach to Class Analysis, Howard J. Sherman; Chapter 5 Power, Property, and Class, Richard Wolff, Resnick Stephen; Part III Discrimination; Chapter 6 The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism, Heidi I. Hartmann; Chapter 7 Racial Inequality, Michael Reich; Part IV Macroeconomic Instability; Chapter 8 Marxian and Post Keynesian Developments in the Sphere of Money, Credit and Finance, Robert Pollin; Chapter 9 Power, Accumulation, and Crisis, David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Samuel Bowles; Part V Economic Development; Chapter 10 Theories of Finance and the Third World, Laurence Harris; Chapter 11 The Concept of the Surplus in Economic Development, Victor D. Lippit; Chapter 12 Institutional and Organizational Framework for Egalitarian Agricultural Growth, Azizur Rahman Khan; Part VI Market Socialism; Chapter 13 “Market Socialism” and Its Critics, Alec Nove; Chapter 14 Toward a Socialism for the Future, in the Wake of the Demise of the Socialism of the Past, Thomas E. Weisskopf; Chapter 15 Socialist Economic Development in the Post-Soviet Era, Victor D. Lippit; Part VII VII The Environment; Chapter 16 The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth, Kenneth E. Boulding; Chapter 17 Marxian Crisis Theory and the Contradictions of Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism, Thomas E. Weisskopf;