Understanding American economic decline / edited by Michael A. Bernstein, David E. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : writing about the economic future / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Historical perspectives. Understanding American economic decline : the contours of the late-twentieth-century experience / Michael A. Bernstein -- Chickens home to roost : from prosperity to stagnation in the postwar U.S. economy / David M. Gordon -- Institutional and structural perspectives. Creating and extracting value : corporate investment behavior and American economic performance / William Lazonick -- Financial institutions and contemporary economic performance / Jane Knodell -- Industries, trade, and wages / James K. Galbraith and Paulo Du Pin Calmon -- A comparative analysis of the sources of America's relative economic decline / Jeffrey A. Hart -- Policy perspectives. Right-wing economics in the 1980s : the anatomy of failure / David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Samuel Bowles -- The new economic stagnation and the contradictions of economic policy making / Robert A. Blecker.

Social and cultural perspectives. The changing contours of discrimination : race, gender, and structural economic change / M.V. Lee Badgett and Rhonda M. Williams -- Troubled times : the cultural dimensions of economic decline / Katherine S. Newman -- Conclusion. American economics and the American economy in the American century : doctrinal legacies and contemporary policy problems / Michael A. Bernstein.