Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya SenDouglas Dowd Understanding Capitalism combines the essays of seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, in a critical assessment of the relationship between economic thought and the dominance of capitalism. With analyses of economists ranging from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen, the book traces the growth of the capitalist system over the past two hundred years and how economic theory has, in fact, become capitalist ideology. Relating socio-economic and analytical histories to present-day economic policy, this is a thoroughly accessible work which makes an ideal introduction to the key thinkers in economic thought past and present.Major economists and economic schools of thought are discussed in a chapter-by-chapter guide that covers Marx, Veblen, Gramsci, post-Keynesian theory, US institutionalists, Sweezy and the Monopoly Capital school, and recent Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen. Contributors include Michael Lebowitz, Carl Boggs, Michael Keaney, Frederic Lee, John Bellamy Foster and Robin Hahnel, with an introduction by the editor, Douglas Dowd. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Human Beings | 17 |
WHAT GRAMSCI MEANS TODAY | 57 |
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alternative Amartya Sen American analysis argued Arrow's Ayres Baran Business Enterprise capitalist capitalist economy common competition concept contribution corporations crisis critical critique culture democracy dominant economic activity economic theory emerged essay existing exploitation fascism fascist Fordism freedom globalization goal Gramsci growth hegemony historical human behavior ideological imperialism important income increase individual industrial institutionalism institutionalist institutions intellectual interest investment Joan Robinson John Bellamy Foster Kalecki Keynes labor leisure class Lenin mainstream economics Marx Marx's Marxian Marxism means ment Monopoly Capital Monthly Review nature needs neoclassical economics organization outcome Paul Sweezy Political Economy Post Keynesian economics poverty preferences problems production profit mark-up radical rate of exploitation rational relationships role rule Sen's social bloc social choice theory society sphere stagnation struggle surplus value Sweezy tendency theoretical Thorstein Veblen tion tradition transformation understanding Veblen saw wages welfare economics work-day workers
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