Capitalist Political Economy : Thinkers and Theories.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (173 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: theory and debate in political economy - antecedents and developments -- 1. Adam Smith: a wealth of notions -- 2. Karl Marx: a capital idea -- 3. William Stanley Jevons: the new margins of economics and the economy -- 4. John Maynard Keynes: a general's theory -- 5. Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi: emigrants and iconoclasts -- 6. Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi: world economy and national crises -- 7. Feminist political economy and ecological economics: home and away -- Bibliography -- Index.
A key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and defended capitalism for more than three centuries.