The collection of articles brought together in the July 15/22 /1996 issue of "The Nation" highlights the trend on the political Left away from a commitment to economic growth. This paper reviews and criticizes the arguments made in the collection. It concludes that we should identify with the...

The argument of this paper is that the protectionist position the Left has adopted with regard to international trade is a serious mistake. That position makes no contribution to solving the problem of wage stagnation in this country. Further, the Lefts hostility to trade puts it in opposition...

The objective of this paper is to go beyond the controversy concerning affirmative action by examining its success in advancing the economic well-being of the two numerical most important groups that it has been designed to assist: women and black people. It concludes that affirmative action...

This paper explores the economics of electoral democracy, an almost entirely neglected subject. Running for office necessitates resources. But students of democracy have had almost nothing to say about how much money should be spent by candidates or where that money should come from. As a...

Considering the failure of Reagonomics to restore United States economic competitiveness, this article advances a left strategy to accomplish that goal. The strategy involves controls on international capital mobility, a reduction in the military budget, a stimulative fiscal and monetary policy,...