Abandoning a macroeconomic survey for a mesosectoral analysis the author seeks an empirically based, but also historical and theoretical, answer to the important question of what sort of restructuring the US economy is undergoing: ‘Casino Capitalist’ asset stripping or the introduction of ‘New Production Paradigms’.
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