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Dugger, William Mayfield was born on November 7, 1947 in Garden City, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles B. and Mary Genevieve (Cline) Dugger.
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This collection of original essays makes a unique contribution to both the radical and institutionalist economics literature by explicitly identifying and promoting the radical dimension of institutional economics. According to the authors (Young Turks in the institutionalist school), radical institutionalism studies show how resources and wants are created through social processes and advance the struggle for a better world through an ongoing dialogue about economic rights. This collection contains a number of new and important contributions from young institutionalists, including the first serious treatment of the origins and contributions of the Texas School of institutionalism. It also contains thorough discussions of the research agenda for institutional economics and an extensive dialogue between institutionalism and Marxism. The book opens with an explanation of the central concepts of radical institutionalism, a history of the seminal Texas School of Economics, and a discussion of the methodology of radical institutionalism. Other contributors critique institutionalism as a radical system of inquiry, extend institutionalism beyond its original American foundation, discuss the contemporary critical literature, and outline the usefulness of a continued dialogue between radical institutionalism and Marxism. This provocative collection will interest scholars of contemporary economic theory. It could also be used as a supplementary reader in courses on the history of economic thought and political economy.
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( Howard Sherman and William M. Dugger engage in a dialog...)
Howard Sherman and William M. Dugger engage in a dialogue on social evolution from Institutionalist and Marxist perspectives, each representing one side. Together they explore the way society develops using the equally radical, but very different approaches of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Marx.
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With the continuing consolidation of corporate holdings through wave after wave of mergers and acquisitions, the ubiquitous power of major corporations is of increasing concern from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint. In this study Dugger approaches corporate power as an institutional phenomenon. Through his sharply focused analysis, he traces the development of U.S. corporate hegemony and explores the impact of the big corporation's social dominance in every aspect of contemporary life. The author begins with an examination of the nature of the corporate behemoth, its values and behavior, inner contradictions, drive for economic power, and its unrestricted control of the global market economy. He looks at the underlying dynamics of the corporation's drive for control and the various processes through which its values, meanings, and motives are imposed. These processes include coercion, contamination, subordination, emulation, and mystification. Dugger shows how the careerism corporations demand systematically draws energy and commitment away from family, community, and other spheres of life, thus corroding their meaning and value. He studies the impact of corporate power on the family, schools and colleges, unions, churches, communities, the state, and the media, and demonstrates how each of the power mechanisms is used to devalue and hollow out these institutions. Dugger argues that the social vacuum this creates is being filled by the big corporations. Unique in its institutional approach to the rise and spread of corporate power, Corporate Hegemony makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the crisis of pluralism in the West.
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(Most principles of economics texts are predicated narrowl...)
Most principles of economics texts are predicated narrowly on the concept of scarcity as a fundamental force, but that is only one aspect of economics. This supplemental text for basic and intermediate level undergraduates provides a serious discussion of the concept of abundance - what it means, how we can move toward it, and what keeps us from doing so. The authors first outline the development of the concept of abundance and its meaning with discussions of the roles of population, resources, and the environment. Then they consider why abundance escapes us, focusing on the detrimental roles of four predatory behaviors - classism, nationalism, sexism, and racism. As a remedy, they propose a policy of universal employment as a replacement for full employment, and explore the effects of pushing the unemployment rate down to absolute zero.
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Dugger, William Mayfield was born on November 7, 1947 in Garden City, Kansas, United States. Son of Charles B. and Mary Genevieve (Cline) Dugger.
Bachelor of Science, University Tulsa, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, Austin, 1974.
Assistant professor economics, North Texas State University, Denton, 1974-1979; associate professor, North Texas State University, Denton, 1980-1981; associate professor, DePaul University, Chicago, 1981-1984; professor, DePaul University, Chicago, 1985-1993; professor Economics, U. Tulsa (Oklahoma), since 1993. Cochran-Hersh memorial lecturer U. North Texas, Denton, 1988.
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Volunteer Committee in Solidarity with People of El Salvador, Chicago, since 1985. Contributor Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, Chicago, 1987. Member American Association of University Professors (president DePaul University chapter since 1991), Association Social Economics (president 1984-1985, executive county 1980-1982), Association Evolutionary Economics (president 1997, board directors since 1990), Association Institutional Thought (president 1987-1988), Union Radical Political Economics, American Economics Association, Western Social Science Association.
Married Pauline June Laddusaw, March 24, 1967.