Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The historic advance, ca. 1870–1970 -- One. The Historic Advance -- Two. Interpreting the ‘‘Sixties’’ -- Three. The Modern Reaction -- Part 2. Recapping and beyond -- Introduction -- Four. Social...

Introduction: John McDermott’s Body of Work -- Chapter 1 As Rights Expand Equality Declines -- Chapter 2 Ours is Not a “Liberal Society” -- Chapter 3 Inalienable Rights and the Abortion Wars -- Chapter 4 Elements of a Theory of Social Rights -- Chapter 5 Looking at the Workplace -- Chapter...

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...

"A narrative history of the gains in economic and political equality in the United States starting in the 1870s. Argues that many of these gains have been reversed since the 1960s, and proposes solutions for reversing this downward spiral"--Provided by publisher

Attempts to give greater realism to a general competitive equilibrium paradigm, such as, famously, by E.H. Chamberlin and Joan Robinson, founder on the excessive inferential potency of its assumptions, as, for example, in the familiar postulate that orders all possible preferences. Either the...