Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy

ISBN-13: 9781032305929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str.

Slovenia) Rutar Tibor (University of Maribor

Opis

Drawing on data from across disciplines, this book presents a fresh overview of the workings of the modern economy, with particular emphasis on those aspects of capitalism that have so far eluded a balanced and synthetic theoretical treatment: inequality, exploitation, neoliberalism, industrial policy, crony capitalism and capitalist peace.

Spis treści

1. Capitalism’s critics and defenders: A possibility of reconciliation  2. Historic origins: More political-economic in nature than cultural  3. A nuanced look at poverty, exploitation, and inequality  4. Capitalism globalized: The spectre of neoliberalism and the ambitions of industrial policy  5. But capitalism corrupts our morals, does it not?  6. Conclusion: What about the environment?

O autorze

Tibor Rutar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and author of Rational Choice and Democratic Government: A Sociological Approach (Routledge, 2021).