Perspectives on Political Economy : Alternatives to the Economics of Depression

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: INTRODUCTORY -- 1 Political Economy: Contrasts, Commonalities, Criteria and Contributions -- The perspectives: contrasts and commonalities -- Criteria for evalution -- The contributions -- PART II: CONTRASTS: LIBERAL v. MARXIST PERSPECTIVES -- 2 The Political Economy of the Public Sector -- Introduction -- The PSBR and the public sector: the incompatibility of definitions -- The public sector: a macro-economic perspective -- The public sector: a micro-economic perspective -- The public sector: a public choice perspective -- The public sector: a liberal perspective -- Some implications for macro-economic policy -- Some implications for micro-economic policy -- Towards a liberal solution -- 3 Critical Political Economy -- The meaning of political economy -- Liberal political economy -- The origins of critical political economy -- Marx's critique of political economy -- Recent developments in Marxist theory -- Conclusion -- PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL STATE -- 4 The Political Economy of Economic Policy -- The economists -- The institutionalists -- The social structuralists -- Institutional and social structural explanations: a synthesis -- Conclusions -- 5 The Political Economy of Industrial Policy -- Introduction -- The contribution of political science -- The industrial policy literature: an overview -- Industrial policy in practice -- Conclusions -- 6 Corporative Industrial Relations and the Welfare State -- Introduction -- Centralized industrial relations and inequality -- Centralized industrial relations and social welfare -- Strengths and weaknesses of social-democratic corporatism -- PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- 7 Perspectives on International Political Economy -- Introduction -- Criteria.