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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.
David Gordon was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of institutional
growth economics, introducing the concept of a 'social structure of
accumulation', and richly illustrating its usefulness with both
econometric and historical studies. Gordon also helped to develop
the theory of segmented labor markets and contributed to the
econometric and historical analysis of their evolution. This
authoritative collection of his most influential works - selected
and introduced by his two closest collaborators - embraces the full
range of his lifelong scholarly endeavor to deploy modern economic
reasoning in the cause of social justice. The work opens with an
introduction and overview of David Gordon's career and published
work. This is followed by his major essays on a great variety of
topics, including the economics of crime, urban history, wage
stagnation in the US economy, the organization of work, the
'top-heavy' modern corporation, the social and institutional
determinants of productivity growth and the globalization of
economic life, as well as labor market segmentation and the social
structure of accumulation. Gordon's synthesis of questions of
neo-Marxian and more conventional provenance, and his integration
of historical and econometric methods in providing answers, makes
Economics and Social Justice a unique and intellectually rewarding
analysis of contemporary capitalism.
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.
Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual
beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical
change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular,
materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David
M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in
the visible world, these beliefs form the basis for individual and
collective actions. Focusing on the history of the south-central
African country of Zambia during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, his analysis invites reflection on political and
religious realms of action in other parts of the world, and
complicates the post-Enlightenment divide of sacred and profane.
The book combines theoretical insights with attention to local
detail and remarkable historical sweep, from oral narratives
communicated across slave-trading routes during the nineteenth
century, through the violent conflicts inspired by Christian and
nationalist prophets during colonial times, and ending with the
spirits of Pentecostal rebirth during the neoliberal order of the
late twentieth century. To gain access to the details of historical
change and personal spiritual beliefs across this long historical
period, Gordon employs all the tools of the African historian. His
own interviews and extensive fieldwork experience in Zambia provide
texture and understanding to the narrative. He also critically
interprets a diverse range of other sources, including oral
traditions, fieldnotes of anthropologists, missionary writings and
correspondence, unpublished state records, vernacular publications,
and Zambian newspapers. Invisible Agents will challenge scholars
and students alike to think in new ways about the political
imagination and the invisible sources of human action and
historical change.
In Recasting Egalitarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series,
economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current
malaise of the Left as a result of the obsolescence of its
traditional economic models. They propose to rejuvenate the
egalitarian project through a strategy of asset-based
redistribution, drawing in novel ways on markets, competition,
state regulation and community governance. In this major work on
economic and social policy, the authors address the twin challenges
posed by a globally integrated economy and the key economic roles
now played by information, motivation, and other intangibles. They
propose an egalitarian redistribution of assets-land, capital, and
housing-and argue for the beneficial disciplining effects of
competition both in markets and among publicly-funded service
providers, pointing out that the injustices commonly associated
with markets can be avoided if assets are more equally distributed.
The lead essay in the book lays out the underlying logic of this
proposal in some detail. This is followed by responses by critics
and supporters.
Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles
for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often
viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts.
This collection draws from African and North American cases to
argue that the forms of knowledge identified as
\u201cindigenous\u201d resulted from strategies to control
environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At
times indigenous knowledges represented a \u201cmiddle ground\u201d
of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized;
elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and
struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their
hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and
traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific,
which they associated with European colonialism. Indigenous
Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational
insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous
knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book
that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and
should relate to environmental policy-making. Contributors: David
Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen Flint, David M.
Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua Reid, Parker
Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A. Webb, Jr.,
Marsha Weisiger
Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles
for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often
viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts.
This collection draws from African and North American cases to
argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous"
resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during
and after colonial encounters.
At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of
intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere,
indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle.
The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms
of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed
to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated
with European colonialism.
"Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment" offers comparative and
transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging
indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result
is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges
can and should relate to environmental policy-making.
Contributors: David Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen
Flint, David M. Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua
Reid, Parker Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A.
Webb, Jr., Marsha Weisiger
Segmented Work, Divided Workers presents a restatement and
expansion of the theory of labor segmentation by three of its
founding scholars. The authors argue that divisions with the US
working class are rooted in a segmentation of jobs since World War
II. They explain the origins of job segmentation through a careful
and systematic historical analysis of changes in the labor process
and the structure of labor markets since the early 1800s. this
analysis builds, in turn, upon hypotheses about successive stages
in the history of capitalist development. Segmented Work, Divided
Workers integrates this economics analysis with a careful historial
appreciation of the complexity of working-class experience in the
United States.
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