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David Gordon (1996) Fat and Mean: the corporate squeeze of working Americans and the myth of managerial 'downsizing' (New York, Free Press), 320 pp. ISBN 0-684-82288-1 $25.00 My first exposure [...]

For many decades, the disciplines of economics and sociology have been at odds with each other. Economists have looked down on sociology for lacking mathematical rigor; on the other hand, [...]

By Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. Pp. 338. American children are mired in poverty. Child poverty has risen dramatically since the late [...]

The U.S. Savings Challenge: Policy Options for Productivity and Growth. Edited by CHARLS E. WALKER, MARK A. BLOOMFIELD and MARGO THORNING, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. A simple macroeconomic identity holds [...]

By James Angresano, Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar 1997, 197 pp. $80.00. 1998 marks the centeniary of the birth of Gunnar Myrdal, one of the more important and [...]

Reviewed by: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University After a 20 year hiatus Keynesian economics is slowly coming back into vogue. Yet even when out of vogue, introductory macroeconomics courses remained Keynesian [...]

Tax reform is once again front page news. To some degree this stems from the fact that top marginal tax rates have risen slowly over the past decade. Another factor [...]

In his last major work, The Challenge of Humanistic Economics, Mark Lutz (and Lux 1979) provided a compelling critique of neoclassical economics. But he attempted to do much more than [...]

Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. By Robert H. Frank. New York: Free Press, 1999, 326 pp. $25.00.. One hundred years ago, Thorstein Veblen [...]

In February 1995 Barings Bank, a staid British merchant bank, collapsed. Barings had financed the U.S. Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, and by the early nineteenth century had become [...]

In the late 1950s, John Kenneth Galbraith described how economic growth was making American families affluent while the provision of public services remained woefully inadequate. Galbraith then argued that rising [...]

Recent policy debates have been noteworthy for their narrowness, if for nothing else. Protagonists increasingly assume economic incentives are all that matter. If the incentives are right, problems will disappear; [...]