Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance

Foreword /Shlomo Maital -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Revising the Microfoundations of Economics -- 2. Human Agency as a Determinant of Material Welfare -- 3. The Methodology of Economics and the Survival Principle Revised -- 4. A Behavioral Theory of Economic Welfare and Economic Justice -- 5. The Economics of Exogenous Increases in Wage Rates in a Behavioral /X-Efficiency Model of the Firm -- 6. A Behavioral Model of Endogenous Economic Growth -- 7. lnterfirm, Interregional, and International Differences in Labor Productivity: Why Convergence Need Not Take Place -- 8. The Economics of Profitable Inefficiency and Market Failure: A Behavioral Model of Path Dependency -- 9. Economic Theory, Public Policy, and the Challenge of Innovative Work Practices -- 10. The Efficiency- and Welfare-Promoting Role of Labor Rights and Labor Power in a Market Economy -- 11. A Revisionist View of the Economic Implications of Child Labor Regulations -- 12. How Discriminatory Pay Inequality Can Persist: Even in Competitive Markets -- 13. When Green Isn't Mean: The Economics of Environmental Regulations -- 14. Big Is Not Always Better: A Critical Appraisal of the Transaction Cost-Economizing Paradigm -- 15. Culture as a Determinant of Material Welfare -- References -- Index -- About the Author.