Comments on “Domestic Outsourcing,Rent Seeking,and Increasing Inequality” by Eileen Appelbaum

Abstract

These are comments on Eileen Appelbaum’s David Gordon Memorial Lecture.

Keywords

inequality financialization production networks

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