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

THE INVESTMENT THEORY OF PARTY COMPETITION......Page 6
Introduction. Politics, Social Science, and the Golden Rule: Reading the Handwriting on the Wall......Page 7
1. Party Realignment and American Industrial Structure: The Investment Theory of Political Parties in Historical Perspective......Page 19
STUDIES IN THE LOGIC OF MONEY-DRIVEN POLITICAL SYSTEMS......Page 105
2. From ‘Normalcy’ to New Deal: Industrial Structure, Party Competition, and American Public Policy in the Great Depression......Page 106
3. Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932 (with Gerald Epstein)......Page 159
4. Industrial Structure and Party Competition in the New Deal: A Quantitative Assessment......Page 186
5. By Invitation Only: Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 1988 Election......Page 220
6. ‘Real Change’? ‘Organized Capitalism,’ Fiscal Policy, and the 1992 Election......Page 250
Conclusion. Money and Destiny in Advanced Capitalism: Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune......Page 310
Postscript......Page 320
Deduced and Abandoned: Rational Expectations, the Investment Theory of Political Parties, and the Myth of the Median Voter......Page 332
Notes......Page 370
Index......Page 445