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Political Economy The Contest of Economics Ideas

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ISBN-10: 0195551273

ISBN-13: 9780195551273

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Frank Stilwell

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In this second edition of Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas, Frank Stilwell provides a fully updated overview of the political economy and its connection with socil concerns. The book investigates the main tradions of economic ideas and provides a 'big picture' overview of the analytical tools and value judgements associated with competing schools of economic thought.Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas features a clear and engaging writing style which makes the complexitites of contesting economic ideas - such as classical political economy and Marxist economics, neoclassical economies and neo-liberalism - easier to grasp.
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Book details

List price: $60.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.65" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

What is political economy?
The personal is political economic
Structural economic changes
Political economic challenges
Understanding and evaluating economic systems
The distinctive features of capitalism
Economic theory in historical perspective
Capitalism emerging
Private vices, public virtues
Value, distribution, growth
Land and economic surplus
Contesting capitalism
The mode of production
Labour, value, exploitation
Capital accumulation
Reproduction, growth, change
Economic crises
Free-market economics
Consumers
Firms
Market structures
Distribution
Economic welfare and neo-liberalism
Economy and society
A dissident tradition in economics
Economic power
Economic and social reform
Corporate globalisation
The disillusioned defence of capitalism
Constructing a Keynesian model
Instability in a monetary economy
Macroeconomic policy
The Keynesian legacy
A radical reconstruction
Economy and environment
Technology, industry, work
Class, gender, ethnicity
The political economy of the state
Why do economists disagree?
A level playing field for economic ideas?
W(h)ither capitalism?