Publications

William Milberg

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Books

The Making of Economic Society, 12th edition, New York: Prentice Hall, 2006 (with R Heilbroner).

The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (with R. Heilbroner).

Edited Books

Labor and the Globalization of Production, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

The Megacorp and Macrodynamics, Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

Articles

“Shifting Sources and Uses of Profit: Sustaining U.S. Financialization with Global Value Chains,” Economy and Society, Economy and Society, V. XXI, August 2008.

“Globalization, Offshoring and Economic Insecurity in Industrialized Countries,” Working Paper, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, August 2008.

“Export Processing Zones and Industrial Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A Survey” ,  Briefing paper for ILO governing board, January 2008.

“The Shifting and Allegorical Rhetoric of ‘Neoclassical’ Economics,” Review of Social Economics, 2007

Attention Deficit Disorder, Challenge Magazine, 2008.

“Pricing and Profits Under Globalized Competition: A Post Keynesian Perspective on U.S. Economic Hegemony,” Festschrift in memory of Alfred Eichner, in L. Rochon and M. Seccareccio, editors, Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming.

“The New Social Science: Imperialism and the Problem of Knowledge in Contemporary Economics,” in S. Gudeman, editor, Economic Persuasions, Oxford: Berghan, forthcoming.

“Dynamic Gains from Services Offshoring: A Critical View,” in E. Paus, editor, Global Capitalism Unbound:  Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (with M. Mahoney, M. Schneider and R. von Arnim).

“Global Collective Action and the ‘Development Agenda’,” Challenge Magazine, November-December, 2006.

“Global Stability Rests on Sharing the Gains” Financial Times, September 7, 2006 (with Jan Kregel).

“Spurring Growth Dynamics from Services Offshoring,” SCEPA Policy Brief, March 2006 (with M. Mahoney, M. Schneider and R. von Arnim).

“State-Market Relations in a Globalized Economy,” SCEPA Policy Brief, April 2006 (with J. Madrick and M. Mahoney).

“In Memorium: Robert Heilbroner, 1919-2005,” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Fall 2005.

“The High-Road and the Low-Road to International Competitiveness: Extending the Neo-Schumpeterian Model Beyond Technology,” International Review of Applied Economics, April 2005 (with Ellen Houston).

“The End of Welfare Economics as We Know It: A Review Essay,” Rethinking Marxism, Winter 2004.

“The Changing Structure of Trade Linked to Global Production Systems: What are the Policy Implications?” International Labour Review, September 2004.

“Deindustrialization and Changes in Manufacturing Trade: Factor Content Calculations for 1978-1995,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 2004 (with David Kucera).

“The Robert Heilbroner Problem,” Social Research, Summer 2004.

After the “New Economics”—Pragmatist Turn?” in E. Khalil, editor, Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology, London, Routledge, 2004.“

“Globalized Production: Structural Challenges for Developing Country Workers,” in W. Milberg, Editor, Labor and the Globalization of Production: Causes and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

“Globalization,” entry in Elgar Encyclopedia of Post Keynesian Economics, J. King, editor,Edward Elgar publishers, 2003.

“Say’s Law in the Open Economy: Keynes’s Rejection of the Theory of Comparative Advantage”, in Beyond Keynes, S. Dow and J. Hillard, editors, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002.

“Decentering the Market Metaphor in International Economics,” in Postmodernism, Knowledge and Economics, S. Cullenberg, D. Ruccio and J. Amariglio, editors, Routledge, 2001.

“Demand Shifts and Wage Inequality: A Jobs-Based Assessment of the Conventional Supply and Demand Model,” in Power, Employment and Accumulation, edited by J. Stanford et al., M.E. Sharpe, 2001. (with David Howell and Ellen Houston).

“Economic Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities,” in Power, Employment and Accumulation, edited by J. Stanford et al., M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

“Gender Bias and Gender Segregation in Manufacturers Trade: Revisiting the Wood Asymmetry,” World Development, July 2000 (with David Kucera).

“Foreign Direct Investment and Development: Reassessing the Costs and Benefits,” International Monetary and Financial Issues for the 1990’s, Vol. VII, UNCTAD: Geneva, 1999.

“Globalization and Its Limits,” in Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy, R. Kozul-Wright and R. Rowthorn, editors, MacMillan, 1998.

“Ideology,” entry in The Handbook of Economic Methodology, J. Davis, W. Hands and U. Maki, editors, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998.

“From Labor Market Flexibility to International Competitiveness: Capitalism’s Shifting Terrain,” CEPA Newsletter, Vol. 2, 1998.

“Saving Free Trade From Itself: Overcoming the Obstacles to International Labor Standards,” New Labor Forum, 1997. (with B. Elmslie)

Notes on labor standards, International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 1997.

“Globalization and International Competitiveness,” in Improving the Global Economy, P. Davidson and J. Kregel, editors, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1997.

“Free Trade and Social Dumping: Lessons from the Regulation of Insterstate Commerce,” Challenge Magazine, May-June 1996 (with B. Elmslie).

“Missing the Point on Trade Pacts,” Boston Globe, June 28th, 1996. (with B. Elmslie)

“The Rhetoric of Policy Relevance in International Economics,” Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1996.

“The Productivity Convergence Debate: A Theoretical and Methodological Reconsideration,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, March 1996 (with B. Elmslie).

“Transnational Corporations and Mexican Autos: Impacts of Sectoral and Macroeconomic Policies,” in International Finance in the New World Order, edited by H.P. Gray and S. Richard, Pergamon Press, 1995 (with M. Twomey).

Interview in Conversations with Post Keynesians, J.E. King, St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

“Three Cheers for a Weak Dollar,” Financial Times, July 6th, 1994. (with W. Godley)

“U.S. Trade Deficit: Recovery’s Dark Side?” Challenge Magazine, November-December 1994. (with W. Godley).

“Market Competition and the Failure of Competitiveness Enhancement Policies in the United States,” Journal of Economic Issues, June 1994.

“Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics,” Review of Radical Political Economics, V. 26, N. 1, 1994. (with B. Pietrykowski)

“Is Absolute Advantage Passé?: Towards a Post Keynesian/Marxian Theory of International Trade,” in Competition, Technology and Money: Classical and Post-Keynesian Perspectives, edited by M. Glick, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1994.

“Technology Gap,” entry in The Elgar Companion of Radical Political Economy, edited by P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1994.

The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy,” CEO International, January 1994.

“NAFTA as Sideshow,” New School Commentator, January 1994.

“Degree of Monopoly, Pricing and Flexible Exchange Rates,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Winter 1993-94 (with P. Arestis).

“The Advantages of Relative Backwardness: An Input-Output Approach,” in The Political Economy of Restructuring, edited by I. Rima, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1993. (with B. Elmslie)

“Natural Order and Postmodernism in Economic Thought,” Social Research, Vol. 60, N. 4, Summer 1993.

“International Trade and the Factor Intensity Uniformity Hypothesis: An Empirical Assessment,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, September 1992. (with B. Elmslie)

“International Competitiveness and Policy in Dynamic Industries,” Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, No. 180, March 1992. (with P. Gray)

“Social Thought and Social Change: Alfred Eichner’s Vision of a New Economics,” in The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner, edited by W. Milberg, M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

“Innovation in the Corporate Economy: A Vertically Integrated Approach,” in The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner, edited by W. Milberg, M.E. Sharpe, 1992. (with B. Elmslie)

“Sidney Weintraub,” entry in Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, edited by P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1991. (with J. Deprez)

“Structural Change and International Competitiveness in Canada: An Alternative Approach,” International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 5, no. 1, 1991.

“Marxism, Poststructuralism and the Discourse of Economics,” Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 4, no.2, Summer 1991.

“Cycle and Trend in the Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies,” Journal of Economic Issues, June 1990 (with J. Deprez).

“Competition and Cooperation: Creative Destruction in Canadian – United States Economic Relations,” in Prospects for Canadian – United States Economic Relations Under Free Trade, edited by W. Milberg and P. Bartholomew, JAI Press, 1990.

“Discretionary Profits,” Apparel Manufacturer, August 1989. (with P. Gray)

“The Power of Ideas and the Impact of One Man: Alfred Eichner, 1937-1987,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Spring 1989. (with M. Groves and F. Lee)

“A Product Line, Life-Cycle Model of Intra-industry Trade,” Eastern Economic Journal, Oct.-Dec. 1988.

“The Language of Economics: Deconstructing the Neoclassical Text,” Social Concept, June 1988.

“Welfare Measurement for Cost-Benefit Analysis,” in Measuring the Efficiency of Public Programs: Costs and Benefits in Vocational Rehabilitation, edited by M. Berkowitz, Temple University Press, 1988.

“Using Better Measures of Disability Status,” in Measuring the Efficiency of Public Programs: Costs and Benefits in Vocational Rehabilitation, edited by M. Berkowitz, Temple University Press, 1988. (with D. Dean)