The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415676847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 488 str.

Nuno Ornelas Martins

Opis

This text addresses the revival of classical political economy in the Cambridge tradition. Classical political economy is distinguished from vulgar political economy in terms of its economic, social, and ethical theory, each distinction turning on an issue of ontology.

Spis treści

Foreword by G. C. Harcourt   Preface  Part I: Economic Theory  1. The Theory of Value and Distribution  2. The Ontology of Value and Distribution  3. The Accumulation of Capital  4. The Principle of Effective Demand  5. Mathematics and Reality  Part II: Social Theory  6. Rational Fools  7. Social Ontology  8. Heterodox Economics as Surplus Theory  9. Platonism and Cambridge  10. Evolutionary Social Theory  11. History and Evolution  Part III: Ethical Theory  12. Uncertainty and Ethical Analysis  13. Justice and the Capability Approach  14. Ontology and Moral Realism  15. Capabilities as Primary (Causal) Powers

O autorze

Nuno Martins is Lecturer in Economics at the University of the Azores, Portugal. He is also a member of the Centro de Estudos em Gestão e Economia at UCP-Porto, and of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group.