This text provides an alternative to conventional economics, drawing on the neoclassical and non-neoclassical insights of prominent economists from America and England. It is intended to provide productive analyses of several contemporary economic problems.

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Contributors, Foreword, Preface, PART I: INTRODUCTION, 1. Beyond Neoclassical Thought: Political Economy for the Twenty-first Century, PART II: PROVISIONING, ETHICS, AND GENDER, 2. Redefining Economics: From Market Allocation to Social Provisioning, 3. Ethics and Economics, 4. The Challenge of Feminist Economics, PART III: FIRMS, HUMAN RESOURCES, AND MONEY, 5. Pricing and the Business Enterprise, 6. Human Resources, Labor Markets, and Economic Performance, 7. Monetary Theory and Policy for the Twenty-first Century, PART IV: MACROECONOMICS, STRUCTURAL CHANGE, AND DISTRIBUTION, 8. Macroeconomics and the Theory of a Monetary Economy, 9. Economic Inequality and the Macrostructuralist Debate, 10. Not Markets Alone: Enriching the Discussion of Income Distribution, PART V: COMPETITIVENESS, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT, 11. Comparative Advantage, Factor-Price Equalization, Industrial Strategies and Trade Tactics, 12. International Trade and the Governance of Global Markets, 13. Late Industrialization: Can More Countries Make It?, PART VI: CONCLUSION, 14. Economics in the Twenty-first Century, Index