Introduction to Political Economy

By Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, and Janet Knoedler

Intro to Political Economy cover
Edition:
6th
Date of publication:
May 2010
ISBN:
978-1-878585-93-6
Pages:
291
Price:
$35.95


  • Preface to the Sixth 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 the Predatory Nature of Contemporary Capitalism
  • John Maynard Keynes and the Turbulent Birth of Macroeconomics
  • Social Class in American Capitalism
  • 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: A Path to Social Democracy
  • Endnotes
  • Works Cited