Economics and the Left

Interviews with Progressive Economists

C.J. Polychroniou, Robert Pollin, C.J. Polychroniou, Robert Pollin

• Editorial: Verso
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781839763809
• Categoría: Economics
• Categoría: Political Economy

Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists, whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. They all deploy the technical tools of their trade-the "dismal science"-in various ways. Much more importantly, they are all people dedicated to the principles of egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity. The result is a combustible brew of ideas, commitments and reflections on major historical events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic recession.
Interviewed are: Michael Ash, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, James K. Boyce, Ha-Joon Chang, Jane D'Arista, Diane Elson, Gerald Epstein, Nancy Folbre, James K. Galbraith, Teresa Ghilarducci, Jayati Ghosh, Ilene Grabel, Costas Lapavitsas, Zhongjin Li, William Milberg, Lonce Ndikumana, Ozlem Onaran, Robert Pollin, Malcolm Sawyer, Juliet Schor, Anwar Shaikh, William Spriggs, Fiona Tregenna, Thomas Weisskopf

Index

A Christmas Carol, 154

A Monetary History of the United States, 85

A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village, 42

A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience, 405

Aaronovitch, Sam, 337

Abowd, John, 155

Access, issue of, 7, 11–12, 49–50, 92–93, 186–187, 207, 240–242 passim, 259, 273, 279, 289, 375, 395

digital access, 212, 340

medical care, to, 319, 324, 395

Adams, Walter, 328

Adarand v. Pena, 374

Adelman, Jeremy, 196

AFL-CIO, 374–375

Africa, 48–49, 266 et seq.

capital flight, 274–275

East Asian economies compared, 272

ethnic conflict, 268–269

green growth, 277–278

African Americans, 51, 322, 369–373

COVID-19 and, 207, 263, 322, 340, 354, 378

economic outcomes for, 370–371

loan applicants, as, 8

African Development Bank, 276–277

African Graduate Fellows program, 267

Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent, 49, 266

After the Waste Land, 403–404

Aglietta, Michel, 405

Agrarian Impasse in Bengal, 44

Air quality, 51

Airbnb, 351, 352

Akerlof, George, 6–7, 8, 11, 151, 153

Albin, Peter, 142

Alchian, Armen, 153

Alesina, Alberto, 14

Alienation, 176, 177, 184

All Fall Down, 89–91

Allende, Salvador, 305

Alternative for Germany, 16

Althusser, Louis, 197

Amazon, 379

American Economic Association, 260

American Economic Review, 8, 14, 68

American Economics Association, 157

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 159

American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), 14

Americans for Financial Reform, 91–92

Amin, Samir, 44

Amoroso, Bruno, 142

Amsden, Alice, 71, 231, 258

Andreoni, Antonio, 383

Ansal, Hacer, 283

Anti-colonial struggles, 174–175

Apple, 257

Arab Monetary Fund, 203

Arestis, Philip, 284, 337

Argentina, 123, 145, 202

Arrow, Kenneth, ...