Introduction to Political Economy

By Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, and Janet Knoedler

Edition:

9th

Date of publication:

December 2022

ISBN:

978-1-939402-73-8

Pages:

300

Price:

$42.50

• About
• Table of Contents

• Preface to the Ninth Edition
• Chapter 1: Some Principles of Mainstream Economics and Political Economy
• Chapter 2: The Political Economy Challenge to Mainstream Economics
• Chapter 3: Adam Smith and the Philosophy of Limited Laissez-Faire
• Chapter 4: Karl Marx and the Contradictions of Capitalism
• Chapter 5: Thorstein Veblen and the Predatory Nature of Contemporary Capitalism
• Chapter 6: John Maynard Keynes and the Turbulent Birth of Macroeconomics
• Chapter 7: Social Class in American Capitalism
• Chapter 8: John Kenneth Galbraith and the Theory of Social Balance
• Chapter 9: U.S. Monopoly Capitalism: An Irrational System?
• Chapter 10: The Middle Way: Swedish Social Democracy
• Chapter 11: The Mondragón Cooperative: A Path to Social Democracy
• Endnotes
• Works Cited