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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the New Edition | |
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| Prologue | |
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| What Has Capitalism Done For Us? To Us? | |
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| The Dynamics of Capitalist Development | |
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| Capitalism's nature and nurture | |
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| The heart of the matter: expansion and exploitation | |
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| Oligarchic rule? | |
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| What exploitation? | |
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| "Trade and the flag": Which follows which? | |
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| In sum | |
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| The Sociology of Economic Theory | |
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| "The economy" | |
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| Objectivity and neutrality | |
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| What should economists be expected to do? | |
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| 1750-1945 | |
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| Birth: The Industrial Revolution and Classical Political Economy, 1750-1850 | |
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| The Start of Something Big | |
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| Why Britain took the lead | |
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| Commodification as revolution | |
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| The State: Now You See It, Now You Don't | |
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| Emperor Cotton | |
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| Hell on earth | |
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| Industrialism in the Saddle | |
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| The Brains Trust | |
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| Adam Smith | |
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| "Invisible hand" or "invisible fist"? | |
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| David Ricardo | |
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| The gospel of free trade | |
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| Abstract theory versus earthy realities | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Say | |
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| Depression is impossible | |
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| Thomas Robert Malthus | |
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| Jeremy Bentham | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| And Karl Marx | |
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| Maturation: Global Capitalism and Neoclassical Economics, 1850-1914 | |
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| And British Industry Shall Rule the World: For a While | |
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| Politics, the accumulation of capital, and the industrial revolution | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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| Industrialization at the gallop | |
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| The Pandora's box of imperialism | |
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| The United States | |
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| The importance of being lucky | |
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| Big, bigger, biggest | |
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| Germany | |
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| Prussian political economy | |
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| German science and technology | |
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| The nation with two faces | |
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| A Digression on the Casting of Stones | |
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| Japan | |
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| Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation! | |
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| "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize" | |
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| Socialist movements in Europe | |
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| And the United States? | |
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| Japan and Germany (again) | |
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| A Place in the Sun | |
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| The rat race begins | |
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| ... And speeds up | |
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| ... Then explodes | |
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| Economists in Wonderland | |
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| "Let us now assume..." | |
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| Recipes for absurdities | |
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| Counter-attack: Karl Marx | |
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| The social process | |
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| The dynamics of nineteenth-century capitalist development | |
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| And Thorstein Veblen | |
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| Human beings versus the system | |
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| Death Throes: Chaos, War, Depression, War Again; Economics in Disarray, 1914-45 | |
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| The War to End All Wars - But That Didn't | |
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| Messy world, neat economics | |
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| As You Sow, So Shall You Reap | |
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| War's unwholesome economic fruits | |
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| The United States | |
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| Germany | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Soviet Union | |
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| The premature revolution | |
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| Forced industrialization | |
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| Fascist Italy | |
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| The first working class? | |
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| Antonio Gramsci | |
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| The future casts its shadow | |
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| The Big One | |
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| The bitter with the better | |
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| The bumpy road down | |
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| Global contagion | |
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| A tragedy of errors | |
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| New brooms don't always sweep clean | |
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| New Deal | |
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| Better late than never | |
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| Unions | |
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| Housing | |
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| Social security | |
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| Nazi Germany | |
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| Through a glass darkly | |
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| Waste Land | |
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| Apocalypse now | |
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| Economics: Almost Out With the Old, Almost In With the New | |
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| The old stamping grounds | |
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| John Bates Clark | |
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| Irving Fisher | |
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| Joan Robinson I | |
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| Turning the earth | |
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| John Maynard Keynes | |
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| Alvin Hansen | |
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| Joan Robinson II | |
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| Joseph A. Schumpeter | |
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| 1945-2000 | |
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| Resurrection: Global Economy II and its Crisis; Hopeful Stirrings in Economics: 1945-75 | |
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| The Best of Times - For Some, For a While | |
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| The Big Six | |
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| Behemoth Capitalism Unbound | |
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| From the Ashes Arising... | |
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| Rescue | |
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| Rebuilding | |
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| Modernization...and the Cold War | |
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| "Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war" | |
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| "Excessive vigilance in the defense of freedom is no crime" | |
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| BIG Business | |
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| The giants feed | |
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| As a matter of fact | |
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| Superstates | |
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| All Together Now: Shop! And Borrow! | |
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| The consciousness industry | |
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| Consumerism as a social disease | |
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| The family and politics | |
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| Stagflation: The Monster with Two Heads | |
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| Toward the new world order | |
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| Economics on a Seesaw | |
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| Post-Keynesian economics | |
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| Radical political economy | |
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| Up with the old | |
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| New World Order: Globalization and Financialization; and Decadent Economics, 1975-2000 | |
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| Introduction and Retrospect | |
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| Monopoly Capitalism II | |
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| Giants Roaming the Earth | |
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| The waltz of the toreadors | |
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| TNCs of the world, unite! | |
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| Media/telecommunications | |
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| Petroleum | |
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| "The new economy" - Who benefits, and who pays? | |
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| Wall Street | |
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| Wages and hours | |
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| Lean and mean | |
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| Fat and mean | |
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| The Superstate's New Masters | |
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| The World as Capital's Oyster | |
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| The Triumph of Spectronic Finance | |
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| The little old lady of Threadneedle Street and her offspring | |
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| "Is the United States Building a Debt Bomb?" | |
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| The addicted consumer | |
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| And so? | |
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| The Media: Amusing Ourselves to Death | |
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| For Shame! | |
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| The Unfolding Crisis of the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Global Economies: Easy Come, Easy Go | |
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| There Is No Failure Like Success | |
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| Altogether Now: Quarrel! | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Introduction: Economic Growth as Icon | |
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| The Case for Growth | |
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| The Tossicodipendente Global Economy | |
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| The theater of the absurd and the obscene | |
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| Honk, if you need a gas mask | |
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| Global Economy III: Today, the World | |
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| Democracy: the challenge met | |
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| Orwell revisited | |
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| The political economy of corruption | |
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| From Bad to Worse | |
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| Hong Kong | |
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| Singapore | |
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| South Korea | |
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| Taiwan | |
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| The eleventh commandment: export! | |
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| Needs and Possibilities and New Directions | |
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| Politics and understanding | |
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| Structural changes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |