The Economic Limits to Modern Politics

ISBN-13: 9780521421515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str.

John Dunn; John Dunn; III Richard F. Teichgraeber

Opis

The most important theoretical and practical problem of contemporary political understanding is the problem of how to understand the economic dimension. It is a central cognitive responsibility of contemporary political science, economics, and sociology to show us exactly how it can be understood. But none of these social sciences at present offers a compelling general approach to such understanding. The purpose of this volume is to bring out the historical novelty and intellectual importance of this predicament, to show how it has arisen, and to suggest, by bringing it into clearer and steadier focus, how we might begin to remedy it. The book's contributors range from historians of ideas to economic theorists. All of them bring to bear upon the issue the particular approaches of their own intellectual disciplines. Anyone seriously concerned with understanding modern politics, either academically or in practice, can learn extensively from careful reading and close consideration of their arguments.

Recenzje

'This varied collection of essays on history, philosophy and economics deals at an extremely high level of subtlety and scholarship with both … the political limit on economics and the economic limit on politics.' Ian Gilmour, London Review of Books

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; 1. The economic limits to modern politics John Dunn; 2. The wealth of one nation and the dynamics of international competition Istvan Hont; 3. The political limits to pre-modern politics J. G. A. Pocock; 4. The economic constraints on political programs Frank H. Hahn; 5. International liberalism reconsidered Robert O. Keohane; 6. Capitalism, socialism, and democracy: compatibilities and contradictions John Dunn.