This brief note raises the complex matter of the concept of rent-seeking, particularly as it connects with the author's prior discussion of Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization. In doing so the author argues that where Keynesian Fordism, in line with its leveraging of the...

This note discusses the concept of "quasi-middle classness"--a situation differing from middle classness in that the individual or household in question enjoys a level and "style" of consumption associated with middle class persons (e.g. they own a house and car), but does not enjoy other...

This paper, in response to the renewed fashion for Keynesian policy, discusses the special mid-century circumstances associated with Keynesianism's greatest period of success, and the contrast it makes with the present, stressing in particular the ways in which the neoliberal shift has come on...

The term neoliberal has been a source of some controversy in recent years, with critics denying its usefulness. In response to those criticisms this paper analyzes neoliberalism--what is here referred to as Neoliberal Financialization--as an economic model, elaborating it and substantially...

This paper, a supplement to the author's prior "Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization: A Comparison of Economic Models," holds that the essentials of "Neoliberal Financialization" were in place by the early 1980s, and the structure increasingly completed over the remainder of the...