Author: SCHOTT, Kerry.
Title: Policy, Power and Order. The Persistence of Economic Problems in Capitalist States.
Description: Yale University Press, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine of dj, o/wise good condition. Argues that bith neoclasiical & Keynesian policy remedies for economic problems are rarely successful today & that the standard framework in which economic policy is generally discussed is both naive & inconsistent. Criticizing both Marxist & individualist analyses of the state, Schott goes on to argue the fundamental importance for economists of political & social conditions & their interrelationship, as the distribution of power in society changes & sometimes impinges on the overriding objective of the state: the maintenance of order. 206pp. ISBN 0300032374.

Keywords: twentieth 20th century politics economics policy power state order political science