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The ABCs of Political Economy : a Modern Approach.
A second, updated edition of this accessible and myth-dispelling introduction to our current economic system.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition; Chapter 1 Economics and Liberating Theory; People and Society; The Human Center; Natural, Species, and Derived Needs and Potentials; Human Consciousness; Human Sociability; Human Character Structures; The Relation of Consciousness to Activity; The Possibility of Detrimental Character Structures; The Institutional Boundary; Why Must There Be Social Institutions?; Complementary Holism; Four Spheres of Social Life; Relations between Center, Boundary, and Spheres.
- Social Stability and Social ChangeAgents of History; Applications; Chapter 2 What Should We Demand from Our Economy?; Economic Justice; Increasing Inequality of Wealth and Income; Different Conceptions of Economic Justice; Efficiency; The Pareto Principle; The Efficiency Criterion; Seven Deadly Sins of Inefficiency; Endogenous Preferences; Self-management; Solidarity; Variety; Sustainability; Weak versus Strong versus Environmental Sustainability; A Workable Definition of Sustainable Development; Growth; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Efficiency and Economic Justice: A Simple Corn Model.
- Model 3.1: A Domestic Corn EconomySituation 1: Inegalitarian Distribution of Scarce Seed Corn; Autarky; Labor Market; Credit Market; Situation 2: Egalitarian Distribution of Scarce Seed Corn; Autarky; Labor Market; Credit Market; Conclusions from the Domestic Corn Model; Generalizing Conclusions; Economic Justice in the Corn Model; Economic Justice, Exploitation, and Alienation; Occupy Wall Street; Model 3.2: A Global Corn Economy; Chapter 4 Markets: Guided by an Invisible Hand or Foot?; How Do Markets Work?; What Is a Market?; The "Law" of Supply; The "Law" of Demand.
- The "Law" of Uniform PriceThe Micro "Law" of Supply and Demand; Elasticity of Supply and Demand; The Dream of a Beneficent Invisible Hand; The Nightmare of a Malevolent Invisible Foot; Externalities: The Auto Industry; Public Goods: Pollution Reduction; Green Consumerism; The Prevalence of External Effects; Snowballing Inefficiency; Market Disequilibria; Conclusion: Market Failure Is Significant; Markets Undermine the Ties That Bind Us; Chapter 5 Microeconomic Models; Model 5.1: The Public Good Game; Model 5.2: The Price of Power Game; The Price of Patriarchy; Conflict Theory of the Firm.
- Model 5.3: Climate Control TreatiesModel 5.4: The Sraffa Model of Income Distribution and Prices; The Sraffa Model; Technical Change in the Sraffa Model; Technical Change and the Rate of Profit; A Note of Caution; Producers and Parasites; Chapter 6 Macroeconomics: Aggregate Demand as Leading Lady; The Macro "Law" of Supply and Demand; Aggregate Demand; Consumption Demand; Investment Demand; Government Spending; The Pie Principle; The Simple Keynesian Closed Economy Macro Model; Fiscal Policy; The Fallacy of Say's Law; Income Expenditure Multipliers; Other Causes of Unemployment and Inflation.