Book Announcement

The US Economy and Neoliberalism: Alternative Strategies and Policies
Edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis

To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge – 240 pages
Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
Hardback: 978-0-415-64505-8: $130.00

PART I: THE RETURN OF GOVERNMENT – PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES & ETHICS 1.
Why is Neoliberalism Dangerous? Alternative Perspectives and Government Policy Implications — Nikolaos Karagiannis and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
2. The Return of Big Government: Policy Advice for President Obama — L. Randall Wray
3. The Job Guarantee in a Municipal Confederalist Framework: Counterhegemonic Possibilities in the Age of Neoconservative Globalization — Mathew Forstater
4. Beyond US Neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus: The Challenge of Development Ethics for the USA — John Marangos, Nikos Astroulakis and Maria DafnomiliPART

II: ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH & PROSPERITY
5. Macroeconomic Policies for Prosperity — Malcolm C. Sawyer
6. The Conditions for Sustainable USA Recovery: The Role of Investment — Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos
7. A Production-oriented Strategy for the USA: A Framework of Alternative Developmentalist Notions — George A. Harwell, Nikolaos Karagiannis and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
8. The Money-wage-labor Standard — Romar Correa

PART III: FINANCIAL FRAGILITY & ALTERNATIVE MONETARY POLICY PROPOSALS
9. Structural Reforms to Reduce Systemic Financial Fragility — Sergio Rossi
10. Quantitative Easing and Proposals for Reform of Monetary Policy Operations — Scott Fullwiler and L. Randall Wray
11. The Economic Crisis and the US Dollar: Benefits and Obligations of a Hegemon —  Swapan Sen
12. TBC — Richard Westra

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(h/t Scott Fullwiler via Twitter)