1st Edition

The Advanced Capitalist System (Routledge Revivals) A Revisionist View

By Jean Piaget Copyright 1980
    146 Pages
    by Routledge

    146 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, first published in 1980, is based on a series of lectures entitled "Theoretical Problems of American Political Economy" that Lynn Turgeon made during the fall of 1978 at Moscow State University. The Advanced Capitalist System: A Revisionist View will be of interest to students of politics and economics.

    Preface;  1. Contemporary Schools of Economic Thought in the United States  2. Defense and Military Expenditures  3. Government Budgets, Deficit Financing, Lending and Granting  4. Unemployment and the Role of Labor  5. Market and Plan in Agriculture and Industry  6. International Trade, Aid, and the "Weakness" of the Dollar  7. Explanations of Inflation  8. Monetary versus Fiscal Policy  9. The Growth of the Service Sector and the Distribution of Income: A Symbiotic Relationship?  10. Toward a Revisionist School of Economics?;  Epilogue: Reactions Abroad and At Home;  Author Index;  Subject Index;  About the Author

    Biography

    Lynn Turgeon