1. Business Power in the U.S. States: Organized Interests and the Design of GHG Emissions Reduction Policies • Joshua A. Basseches, University of Michigan.

2. American Landed Dependence: Demographic Politics and the Spread of Home Equity Extraction, 1970-1995 • Luis Flores, University of Michigan.

3. The Failure of Flexible Housing Subsidies and the Underdevelopment of the American Welfare State • Jessica Schirmer, University of California, Berkeley.

4. The Reagan Administration between Financial Markets and the Manufacturing Economy: Consequences for the Development of Financialization • Erik Van Deventer, New York University (NYU).