Introduction. Politics, Social Science, and the Golden Rule: Reading theHandwriting on the Wall 1: Party Realignment and American Industrial Structure: The InvestmentTheory of Political Parties in Historical Perspective2: From 'Normalcy' to New Deal: Industrial Structure, Party Competition, and American Public Policy in the Great Depression3: Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The FederalReserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932Thomas Ferguson, Gerald Epstein.4: Industrial Structure and Party Competition in the New Deal: AQuantitative Assessment5: By Invitation Only: Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the1988 Election6: 'Real Change'? 'Organized Capitalism, ' Fiscal Policy, and the 1992ElectionConclusion. Money and Destiny in Advanced Capitalism: Paying the Piper, Calling the TunePostscriptAppendix: Deduced and Abandoned: Rational Expectations, the InvestmentTheory of Political Parties, and the Myth of the Median VoterIndex