TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dumas,Lloyd J.
TI  - The overburdened economy: uncovering the causes of chronic unemployment, inflation, and national decline 
SN  - 0520056868 (alk. paper)
AV  - HD 5724 .D775 1986
U1  - 331.13/7973 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - United States
KW  - Unemployed
KW  - Underemployment
KW  - Inflation
KW  - Poor
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1981-2001
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://archive.org/details/overburdenedecon0000duma
ER  -