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The political economy reader : markets as institutions / edited by Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: viii, 569 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415954924
  • 9780415954921
  • 0415954932
  • 9780415954938
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 22
LOC classification:
  • HF1359 .P6556 2008
Contents:
Pt. I. Contending Perspectives: Four Disciplines -- 1. The Classics -- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) / Adam Smith -- The Communist Manifesto (1848) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The National System of Political Economy (1841) / Friedrich List -- 2. The Liberal Paradigm -- The Road to Serfdom (1944) / Friedrich A. Hayek -- Capitalism and Freedom (1962) / Milton Friedman -- 3. Economic Sociology -- The Great Transformation (1944) / Karl Polanyi -- The Architecture of Markets (2001) / Neil Fligstein -- 4. The New Institutional Economics -- Structure and Change in Economic History (1981) / Douglass C. North -- The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (1985) / Oliver E. Williamson -- 5. Historical Perspectives -- The Stages of Economic Growth (1960) / W. W. Rostow -- Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962) / Alexander Gerschenkron -- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998) / David S. Landes -- 6. Political Science and Political Economy -- The Market System (2001) / Charles E. Lindblom -- MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982) / Chalmers Johnson -- Varieties of Capitalism (2001) / Peter A. Hall and David Soskice -- Pt. II. Contemporary Debates: Three Types of Market Reform -- 1. Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries -- The Virtues of Capitalism (1980) / Arthur Seldon -- "Why Freer Markets Need More Rules" (2007) / Steven K. Vogel -- 2. Market Transition in Eastern Europe and China -- The End of Poverty (2005) / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Globalization and Its Discontents (2002) / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- China and Globalization (2006) / Doug Guthrie -- 3. Market Development in Developing Countries -- The Poverty of "Development Economics" (1983) / Deepak Lal -- "The Myths of the Market and the Common History of Late Developers" (1993) / Kiren Aziz Chaudhry -- "The Mystery of Capital" (2001) / Hernando de Soto -- 4. Globalization and the Information Technology Revolution -- The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) / Thomas L. Friedman -- How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? (2006) / Abraham Newman and John Zysman -- The Retreat of the State (1996) / Susan Strange -- Global Political Economy (2001) / Robert Gilpin.
Summary: This reader combines in a single volume the key writings of classical and contemporary thinkers on political economy, providing both a theoretical approach to understanding capitalism and a survey of the varieties of capitalism around the world today.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-547) and index.

Pt. I. Contending Perspectives: Four Disciplines -- 1. The Classics -- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) / Adam Smith -- The Communist Manifesto (1848) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The National System of Political Economy (1841) / Friedrich List -- 2. The Liberal Paradigm -- The Road to Serfdom (1944) / Friedrich A. Hayek -- Capitalism and Freedom (1962) / Milton Friedman -- 3. Economic Sociology -- The Great Transformation (1944) / Karl Polanyi -- The Architecture of Markets (2001) / Neil Fligstein -- 4. The New Institutional Economics -- Structure and Change in Economic History (1981) / Douglass C. North -- The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (1985) / Oliver E. Williamson -- 5. Historical Perspectives -- The Stages of Economic Growth (1960) / W. W. Rostow -- Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962) / Alexander Gerschenkron -- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998) / David S. Landes -- 6. Political Science and Political Economy -- The Market System (2001) / Charles E. Lindblom -- MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982) / Chalmers Johnson -- Varieties of Capitalism (2001) / Peter A. Hall and David Soskice -- Pt. II. Contemporary Debates: Three Types of Market Reform -- 1. Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries -- The Virtues of Capitalism (1980) / Arthur Seldon -- "Why Freer Markets Need More Rules" (2007) / Steven K. Vogel -- 2. Market Transition in Eastern Europe and China -- The End of Poverty (2005) / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Globalization and Its Discontents (2002) / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- China and Globalization (2006) / Doug Guthrie -- 3. Market Development in Developing Countries -- The Poverty of "Development Economics" (1983) / Deepak Lal -- "The Myths of the Market and the Common History of Late Developers" (1993) / Kiren Aziz Chaudhry -- "The Mystery of Capital" (2001) / Hernando de Soto -- 4. Globalization and the Information Technology Revolution -- The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) / Thomas L. Friedman -- How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? (2006) / Abraham Newman and John Zysman -- The Retreat of the State (1996) / Susan Strange -- Global Political Economy (2001) / Robert Gilpin.

This reader combines in a single volume the key writings of classical and contemporary thinkers on political economy, providing both a theoretical approach to understanding capitalism and a survey of the varieties of capitalism around the world today.

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