The overburdened economy : uncovering the causes of chronic unemployment, inflation, and national decline / Lloyd J. Dumas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.Description: xiv, 297 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0520056868 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • The over-bur-dened economy [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.13/7973 19
LOC classification:
  • HD 5724 .D775 1986
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The appearance of progress, the reality of decline -- 2. The macroeconomic problem -- 3. Rethinking basic economic concepts -- 4. Contributive, neutral, and distractive activity: the fundamentals of resource use -- 5. Breaking down capital and labor -- 6. The impact of noncontributive activity on productive competence -- 7. Productive competence, unemployment, and inflation -- 8. The economics of transition -- 9. The theory of resource diversion -- 10. The theory of resource diversion: a more technical look -- 11. Applying the theory of resource diversion -- 12. Designing a program for economic revitalization.
Summary: "Lloyd Dumas has challenged one of the implicit assumptions of the Keynesian revolution and the national income statistics that embodied it: the assumption that all activity which is paid for must be productive. His questioning of this assumption may well set off a reorganization of the economic information system and point a new direction for economic research that will greatly improve our understanding of economic events. There are many indications that the time is ripe for a reorganization of economic thought, a new Kuhnian revolution, stimulated by the search for a more humanistic economics." -- From the preface.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index.

1. The appearance of progress, the reality of decline -- 2. The macroeconomic problem -- 3. Rethinking basic economic concepts -- 4. Contributive, neutral, and distractive activity: the fundamentals of resource use -- 5. Breaking down capital and labor -- 6. The impact of noncontributive activity on productive competence -- 7. Productive competence, unemployment, and inflation -- 8. The economics of transition -- 9. The theory of resource diversion -- 10. The theory of resource diversion: a more technical look -- 11. Applying the theory of resource diversion -- 12. Designing a program for economic revitalization.

"Lloyd Dumas has challenged one of the implicit assumptions of the Keynesian revolution and the national income statistics that embodied it: the assumption that all activity which is paid for must be productive. His questioning of this assumption may well set off a reorganization of the economic information system and point a new direction for economic research that will greatly improve our understanding of economic events. There are many indications that the time is ripe for a reorganization of economic thought, a new Kuhnian revolution, stimulated by the search for a more humanistic economics." -- From the preface.

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