Capitalism and Its Economics
A Critical History
Published on 20. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7453-1643-7 (ISBN)
Description
Written by a maverick in the world of alternative economics, this book is a critical history of the relationship between economic thought and capitalism from 1750 to the present. The book examines th dynamic interaction of two processes: the historical realities of capitalism and the evolution of economic theory. As Dowd demonstrates, the study of economics celebrates capitalism in ways which make it necessary to classify economic science as pure ideology. A thoroughly modern history, this book shows how economics has become ideology. A radical critic of capitalism, Dowd surveys its detrimental impact across the globe and throughout history. The book includes biographical sketches and brief analyses of the major proponents and critics of capitalism throughout history, including Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Rosa Luxemburg, John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson, Milton Friedman, Eric Hobsbawm.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-1643-7 (9780745316437)
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07/2004
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Pluto Press
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Content
Prologue: what has capitalism done for us? to us? the dynamics of capitalist development; the sociology of economic theory. Part 1 1750-1945: Birth - the Industrial revolution and classical political economy, 1750-1850 - the start of something big, the state - now you see it, now you don't, emperor cotton, industrialism in the saddle, the brains trust; maturation - global capitalism and neo-classical economics, 1850-1914 - and British industry shall rule the world - for a while, the United Sates, Germany, a digression on the casting of stones, Japan, arise, ye prisoners of starvation!, a place in the sun, economics in wonderland; death throes - chaos, war, depression, war again, economics in disarray, 1914-1945 - the war to end all wars, as you sow, so shall you rap, the big one, new deal, Nazi Germany, through a glass darkly, the waste land, economics - almost out with the old; almost in with the new. Part 2 1945-2000: resurrection - global economy II and crisis; hopeful stirrings in economics - 1945-1975 - the best of times...for some, for a while, Behemoth capitalism unbound, from the ashes arising, super-states, all together now - shop! and borrow!, stagflation - the monster with two heads, economics on a seesaw; new world order - globalisation and financialisation; and decadent economics, 1975-1000 - introduction and retrospect, monopoly capitalism II, giants roaming the earth, the super-state's new masters, the world as capital's oyster.