Institutionalist Guide to Economics and Public Policy

Marc R. Tool is Emeritus Professor of Economics at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy (1979), and Essays in Social Value Theory: A Neoinstitutionalist Contributio

• Editor's Introduction, Fundamentals of an Institutionalist Perspective on Economic Policy, Social Reform and Economic Policy, Institutionalist Reflections on the Role of the Public Sector, Economic Stabilization and Inflation, Domestic Monetary Policy: If Not Monetarism, What?, Selective Employment Programs and Economic Policy, The Myth Is Not the Reality: Income Maintenance and Welfare, Industrial Policy, Uncertainty, Indicative Planning, and Industrial Policy, Public Utility Regulation: A Case Study in the Debate over Effectiveness of Economic Regulation, Shifting the Burden of Environmental Protection, A Geobased National Agricultural Policy for Rural Community Enhancement, Environmental Vitality, and Income Stabilization, Foreign Economic Policy: Challenges of the 1980s, The Implementation of Economic Development, About the Authors