Capitalism Contested

Romain Huret is a professor at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is author of numerous books, including American Tax Resisters and The Experts' War on Poverty. Nelson Lichtenstein is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto and The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jean-Christian Vinel teaches American history at the University of Paris Diderot. He is author of The Employee: A Political History, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Introduction. The New Deal: A Lost Golden Age?Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Jean-Christian VinelPart I. The Political Economy of New Deal ReformismChapter 1. Transcending the New Deal Idea of the State: Managerialism, Neoliberalism, and DemocracyK. Sabeel RahmanChapter 2. Inventing the American EconomyTimothy ShenkChapter 3. The Triumph of the Mixed Economy: The New Deal Order, Keynes, and the Genius of American LiberalismJason Scott SmithChapter 4. The Strange Career of Institutional KeynesianismSamir SontiPart II. New Deal Headwinds: Contestation and ResistanceChapter 5. The Unanticipated Consequences of New Deal Poor Relief: Welfare Rights, Empowered States, and the Revival of LocalismKaren M. TaniChapter 6. Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student Debt CrisisElizabeth Tandy ShermerChapter 7. The Shackles of the Past: Constitutional Property Tax Limitations and the Fall of the New Deal OrderIsaac William MartinChapter 8. The Koch Network: Property Supremacist Ideology and Politics in the Twenty-First CenturyNancy MacLeanPart III. Capital and Labor in the Twilight of the New DealChapter 9. Economic Royalists and Their Kingdom in the New Deal Era and BeyondNelson LichtensteinChapter 10. The High-Tech Revolution and the Disruption of American CapitalismMargaret O'MaraChapter 11. The Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the Resilience of Urban LiberalismWilliam P. JonesChapter 12. Constructing a New Labor Law for the Post-New Deal EraKate AndriasNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"An impressive collection of well-researched, pointed, and thought-provoking essays." (Howard Brick, author of Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought)