ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some elements of such issues by analysing the potential of a pluralist and interdisciplinary perspective in economics for explaining significant aspects of the concepts in particular, market, capitalism, socialism and democracy, public and private action that have shaped this evolution. It provides a closer collaboration of Marxian theories with other theories of socialism, with institutional and Keynesian economics, and with psychology and psychoanalysis, can help to bring out their great potential for the interpretation of socio-economic evolution. The chapter shows how do the cultural factors, such as economy, politics, society, science and technology, and the arts influence one another and with what consequences in terms of realization of the goals of democracy, participation and socio-economic development. One central field of psychoanalytic contributions to the study of social life relates to the analysis of aggressive behaviour.
