Thomas Ferguson.
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.
Some Thomas Ferguson links:
Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Thomas Ferguson, Wikipedia.
Thomas Ferguson at The Nation.
Stories by Thomas Ferguson at AlterNet.
Thomas Ferguson, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Investment theory of party competition, Wikipedia.
My post on Ferguson & Rogers's book Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986) is here.
Video:
Yves Smith, "Tom Ferguson Saw the Disheartening Future of American Politics 25 Years Ago," Naked Capitalism, 02 February 2013.
This article has a link to the video for an episode of a 1988 TV program that is mostly a conversation with Ferguson: Alternative Views #359: Democrats' Direction: Grover Clevland or FDR?, 13 July 1988.
Watch it at Archive.org.
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009), a documentary film directed by Jonathan Shockley.
Film website.
Watch it at YouTube.
Watch it at Archive.org.
Watch it at Vimeo.
(You can easily download the video file from Archive.org or Vimeo.)
This film is built around an interview with Ferguson.