Capitalism, Development and Empowerment of Labour: A Heterodox Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9781032022390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Hartmut Elsenhans

Opis

The neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue – it is a class issue. This book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a central position in the study of the social sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The determination of prices: The relevance of value theory against the centrality of the egalitarian foundation of flexibility and efficiency in capitalism 2. The macroeconomics of profit, crisis and growth in capitalism 3. Rising mass incomes as a safeguard for capitalism 4. Rent blocks capitalism: Today’s underdeveloped world 5. On the intelligent use of rent for overcoming underdevelopment 6. The globalisation of an underconsumptionist threat and the emergence of a doomsday scenario of globalisation 7. The globalisation of rent 8. The alternative: Defending mass interests and capitalism through rising mass demand: some concluding considerations

O autorze

Hartmut Elsenhans is Professor Emeritus at the Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig, Germany.