Paitaridis, Dimitris; Tsoulfidis, Lefteris - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 44 (2012) 2, pp. 213-233
This paper by using the categories of productive and unproductive labor and by extending and further elaborating the data series utilized in Shaikh and Tonak (1994) reveals a sharp expansion of the unproductive activities in the U.S. economy during the period 1964-2007. The combination of...