Economics and Social Justice: Es

Reprints a selection of 22 influential papers by American economist Gordon (1944-96), a pioneer in institutional growth economics who introduced the concept of a social structure of accumulation and contributed to the theory of segmented labor markets and the econometric and historical analysis of their evolution. In addition to those, the topics here include the economics of crime, urban history, wage stagnation in the US economy, the organization of work, the top-heavy modern corporation, the social and institutional determinants of productivity growth, and the globalization of economic life. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.