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Capitalism: Should You Buy it?

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An Invitation to Political Economy

Capitalism: Should You Buy it?

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Capitalism: Should You Buy it? book

An Invitation to Political Economy
ByCharles Derber, Yale R. Magrass
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 16 November 2015
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315635699
Pages 316
eBook ISBN 9781315635699
Subjects Social Sciences
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Derber, C., & Magrass, Y.R. (2014). Capitalism: Should You Buy it?: An Invitation to Political Economy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315635699

ABSTRACT

Before there was economics, there was political economy, an interdisciplinary adventure boldly and critically seeking to understand capitalism. Over time, the social sciences evolved into specific disciplines - economics, sociology, political science - that less often questioned capitalist perspectives and the state. Contrasting three traditions - neoclassicism, Keynesianism, and neo-Marxism - Capitalism: Should You Buy It? traces the historical development of each and evaluates whether they view capitalism as the root cause of or the solution to the pressing problems now facing humanity. This accessible and hopeful book is a call to everyone - citizen, student, public intellectual - to revive the critical edge towards capitalism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |1 pages

PART I Why Political Economy?

chapter |1 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 1|8 pages

Economics Lost: Why We Need Political Economy

chapter 2|16 pages

Social Sciences Found? Political Economy and the Sociological Imagination

part |1 pages

PART II The Three Paradigms

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 3|18 pages

The Neoclassical Paradigm

chapter 4|26 pages

The Keynesian Paradigm

chapter 5|28 pages

The Neo-Marxist Paradigm

part |1 pages

PART III Political Economy and Contemporary Issues

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter 6|22 pages

Inequality

chapter 7|20 pages

Democracy

chapter 8|21 pages

Individualism versus Community

chapter 9|16 pages

Globalization

chapter 10|15 pages

Environment and Climate Change

chapter 11|16 pages

Education

chapter 12|17 pages

Race

chapter 13|16 pages

Gender and Family

part |1 pages

PART IV Conclusion

chapter 14|21 pages

The Sociological Imagination, the New Economics, and Saving the World

chapter |28 pages

Notes

chapter |11 pages

Index

chapter |1 pages

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