This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and Ricardo, as well as Marx, while also operationalizing more recent theoretical developments inspired by the works ...(展开全部)

This book gives information on studies based on sociology and capitalism.

The relationship between political and economic cycles is one of the most widely studied topics in political economics. This book examines how electoral laws, the timing of elections, the ideological orientation of governments, and the nature of competition between political parties influence unemployment, economic growth, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy. The book pre...(展开全部)

The originators of classical political economy - Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others - created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism's creation: for it to succeed, peasants would have ...(展开全部)

The originators of classical political economy - Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others - created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that discourse, these writers downplayed a crucial requirement for capitalism's creation: for it to succeed, peasants would have ...(展开全部)

伊夫-夏尔•扎卡（Yves Charles Zarka），巴黎大学哲学荣休教授，当代法国著名政治哲学家，现代政治思想史领域杰出学者。法国学术季刊《城邦》、法文评注版《霍布斯全集》以及“政治的基础”“哲学与社会”等丛书的主编。曾在法国国家科学研究院（CNRS）创立托马斯•霍布斯中心并担任该中心及现代哲学史中心主任。其主要研究领域为现代政治哲学理论、霍布斯研究、当代欧洲问题等。著有《霍布斯的形而上学决断》（1987）、《霍布斯与现代政治思想》（1995）、《古典时期的哲学与政治学》（1998）、《大地的不可占有：一种哲学重建的原则》（2013）、《重建世界主义》（2014）等，与哈贝马斯合著《重塑欧洲》（2012）。

Since the end of the second World War, economics professors and classroom textbooks have been telling us that the economy is one big machine that can be effectively regulated by economic experts and tuned by government agencies like the Federal Reserve Board. It turns out they were wrong. Their equations do not hold up. Their policies have not produced the promised results. The...(展开全部)

This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes further than any study to date by outlining the conditions under which one type of political conflict is more likely than the other. Michael Hiscox focuses on a critical issue affecting support fo...(展开全部)

Karl Marx's writings provide a uniquely insightful explanation of the inner workings of capitalism, which other schools of thought generally have difficulty explaining. From this vantage point, Marx's works can help to explain important features and economic problems of our age, and the limits of their possible solutions. For example, the necessity and origin of money, the grow...(展开全部)

'Addresses some of the most crucial questions of the current era...Dowd brings formidable qualities to this challenging task. An impressive achievement.' Noam Chomsky 'This is a work of enlightenment that will be intelligible to students and non-economists.' Edward S. Herman This classic book is an ideal introduction to economic thought and the dominance of capitalism, ideal ...(展开全部)