Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories [Paperback]

Introduction: Theory and Debate in Political Economy - antecedents and developments (1) Adam Smith: a wealth of notions (2) Karl Marx: a capital idea (3) William Stanley Jevons: the new margins of economics and the economy (4) John Maynard Keynes: a generals theory (5) Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi: emigrants and iconoclasts (6) Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi: world economy and national crises (7) Feminist Political Economy and Ecological Economics: home and away

A key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and defended capitalism for more than three centuries.

Heather Whiteside is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada. Her research and writing centre on theories and practices of privatization, financialization, and fiscal austerity.

Heather Whiteside truly brings political economy to life in this engaging and incisive book. Quite the opposite of a dry march through theories and concepts, Capitalist Political Economy reveals the thinkers behind the thoughts and the contexts that shaped the concepts. And its not just the usual subjects and well-known stories, either: yes, there is Marx, Smith and Keynes, but also Nancy Folbre and David Harvey, Braudel and Polanyi, and a lot more. Highly recommended. - Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, USA.

This engaging book reveals the social judgments that lie behind economists' theories. It shows what has shaped the ideas of the leading economic thinkers. It is a must-read for serious students of economic thought - and for anyone sel£&