Power, Employment and Accumulation : Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation, Jim Stanford Part I. Power, Work, and Distribution 2. Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show? David R. Howell, Ellen Houston, and William Milberg 3. Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s, Jullet B. Schor 4. The Future of Egalitarian Politics, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Part II. Power and the Macroeconomy 5. Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions, Thomas I. Palley 6. Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination, Heather Boushey Part III. Power and the Global Economy 7. Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake? Jim Stanford 8. Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities, William S. Milberg 9. Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes, Isabella Bakker 10. Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization, Lance Taylor