Introduction to Political Economy

Edition:

5th

Date of publication:

August 2008

ISBN:

978-1-878585-72-1

Pages:

282

Price:

$34.95

• About
• Table of Contents

• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• The Political Economy Challenge to Mainstream Economics
• Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Limited Laissez-Faire
• Karl Marx and the Contradictions of Capitalism
• Thorstein Veblen and Predatory Nature of Contemporary Capitalism
• John Maynard Keynes and the Turbulent Birth of Macroeconomics
• Social Classes: Impediment to the Good Life?
• John Kenneth Galbraith and the Theory of Social Balance
• U.S. Monopoly Capitalism: An Irrational System?
• The Middle Way: Swedish Social Democracy
• The Mondragón Cooperative
• Endnotes
• Works Cited