The advanced capitalist system : a revisionist view / Lynn Turgeon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: White Plains, New York : M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1980.Description: x, 133 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0873321715
  • 0873321723 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.12/2
LOC classification:
  • HC 59 .T86 1980
Online resources:
Contents:
I. Contemporary schools of economic thought in the United States -- II. Defense and military expenditures -- III. Government budgets, deficit financing, lending and granting -- IV. Unemployment and the role of labor -- V. Market and plan in agriculture and industry -- VI. International trade, aid, and the "weakness" of the dollar -- VII. Explanations of inflation -- VIII. Monetary versus fiscal policy -- IX. The growth of the service sector and the distribution of income: a symbiotic relationship? -- X. Toward a revisionist school of economics? -- Epilogue: reactions abroad and at home.
Summary: "In this series of lectures on the contemporary American economy, delivered at Moscow State University, Lynn Turgeon outlines his own 'revisionist view' of the role of defense spending, deficit financing, unemployment, the market, international trade, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, and the growing service sector in the advanced capitalist system. The lectures are punctuated with provocative questions from the author's Soviet students." -- From the back cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HC 59 .T86 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19090033

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121) and indices.

I. Contemporary schools of economic thought in the United States -- II. Defense and military expenditures -- III. Government budgets, deficit financing, lending and granting -- IV. Unemployment and the role of labor -- V. Market and plan in agriculture and industry -- VI. International trade, aid, and the "weakness" of the dollar -- VII. Explanations of inflation -- VIII. Monetary versus fiscal policy -- IX. The growth of the service sector and the distribution of income: a symbiotic relationship? -- X. Toward a revisionist school of economics? -- Epilogue: reactions abroad and at home.

"In this series of lectures on the contemporary American economy, delivered at Moscow State University, Lynn Turgeon outlines his own 'revisionist view' of the role of defense spending, deficit financing, unemployment, the market, international trade, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, and the growing service sector in the advanced capitalist system. The lectures are punctuated with provocative questions from the author's Soviet students." -- From the back cover.

Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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