Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems

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Author(s): Thomas Ferguson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1995

Language: English
Commentary: More best quality: A4 format like retail edition

PART ONE
THE INVESTMENT THEORY OF PARTY COMPETITION
Introduction. Politics, Social Science, and the Golden Rule: Reading the Handwriting on the Wall
1. Party Realignment and American Industrial Structure: The Investment Theory of Political Parties in Historical Perspective
PART TWO
STUDIES IN THE LOGIC OF MONEY-DRIVEN POLITICAL SYSTEMS
2. From ‘Normalcy’ to New Deal: Industrial Structure, Party Competition, and American Public Policy in the Great Depression
3. Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932 (with Gerald Epstein)
4. Industrial Structure and Party Competition in the New Deal: A Quantitative Assessment
5. By Invitation Only: Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 1988 Election
6. ‘Real Change’? ‘Organized Capitalism,’ Fiscal Policy, and the 1992 Election
Conclusion. Money and Destiny in Advanced Capitalism: Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune
Postscript
APPENDIX
Deduced and Abandoned: Rational Expectations, the Investment Theory of Political Parties, and the Myth of the Median Voter
Notes
Index