- _American Urbanism: A Historical Survey_ (1978)
- _Our Town: Community and Pluralism in Urban America_ (1980)
- _The Urban Economy: Illusion and Reality_ (1981)
- _Poverty, Inequality, and the Crisis of Social Policy_ (1983)
- _The Social Welfare State: Failure or Success?_ (1984)
- _The Decline of Industrial America: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Remedies_ (1985)
- _The Global Economy: A Beginner's Guide_ (1987)
- _The End of Welfare: History, Crisis, and Alternatives_ (1988)
- _The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry_ (1989)
- _The New World Order: Background and Implications of the Gulf War_ (1991)
- _Social Policy in the United States: A History to the Present_ (1993)
- _Our Common Wealth: The Economic Basis of Social Progress_ (1995)
- _Democracy and Economic Power: The Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism_ (1997)
- _The New American Gilded Age: Gilded Age 1: The Triumph of Plutocracy_ (2011)
- _The New American Gilded Age: Gilded Age 2: The Conquest of the Public Sector_ (2012)
- _The New American Gilded Age: Gilded Age 3: The Privatization of the Public Sector_ (2013)
Articles:
- "The Crises of the American Economic System: A Critique of Galbraith and Heilbroner" (_Social Policy_, 1973)
- "The American Welfare State: A Crisis in Theory and Practice" (_Social Work_, 1975)
- "The Myth of American Pluralism" (_Socialist Revolution_, 1976)
- "The Political Economy of American Industrial Decline" (_Review of Radical Political Economics_, 1980)
- "The Fiscal Crisis of the American State" (_Socialist Review_, 1981)
- "The Global Economy and the Crisis of American Hegemony" (_Socialist Review_, 1987)
- "The End of Welfare: A Crisis of Capitalism or Social Policy?" (_Social Policy_, 1989)
- "The New World Order: A Socialist Perspective" (_Socialist Review_, 1991)
- "Social Policy in the United States: A Historical Survey" (_Social Service Review_, 1993)
- "Our Common Wealth: The Economic Basis of Social Progress" (_Social Policy_, 1995)
- "Democracy and Economic Power: The Role of the State in Advanced Capitalism" (_Capitalism, Nature, Socialism_, 1997)
- "The New American Gilded Age: The Triumph of Plutocracy" (_Socialist Review_, 2011)
- "The New American Gilded Age: The Conquest of the Public Sector" (_Socialist Review_, 2012)
- "The New American Gilded Age: The Privatization of the Public Sector" (_Socialist Review_, 2013)