A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner

A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner

Author: M. Carroll

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1998-01-12

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0230372511

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This book provides an intellectual portrait of Robert Heilbroner. It traces the development of his work and places it within the literature of economic thought. The book finds that Heilbroner is a writer of political economy in the classical sense. His work is more reminiscent of Smith or Marx than of contemporary economic theorists. Heilbroner's economics is built on a solid foundation of social psychology, evolutionary dynamics and human history. This holistic approach affords Heilbroner a wide latitude to define the economic process and the discipline that studies it.


21st Century Capitalism

21st Century Capitalism

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0393312283

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Reflecting on the end of communism, the author of the best-selling The Worldly Philosophers examines the many faces of capitalism, looking for the aspects of a market economy that will be most capable of succeeding against today's toughest dilemmas.


Outsourcing Economics

Outsourcing Economics

Author: William Milberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-29

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1107355222

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Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and household - that mold the power asymmetries that influence the distribution of the gains from globalization. In this book, William Milberg and Deborah Winkler propose an institutional theory of trade and development starting with the growth of global value chains - international networks of production that have restructured the global economy and its governance over the past twenty-five years. They find that offshoring leads to greater economic insecurity in industrialized countries that lack institutions supporting workers. They also find that offshoring allows firms to reduce domestic investment and focus on finance and short-run stock movements.


Capitalism

Capitalism

Author: Fred L. Block

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0520959078

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Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are convinced that they are powerless to change this system. The result is cycles of raised hopes followed by disappointment as elected officials discover they have no legitimate policy tools that can deliver what the public wants. In Capitalism, leading economic sociologist Fred L. Block argues that restoring the vitality of the United States and the world economy can be accomplished only with major reforms on the scale of the New Deal and the post–World War II building of new global institutions.


The Worldly Philosophers

The Worldly Philosophers

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780671201517

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Introduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world of Karl Marx.--The Victorian world and the underworld of economics.--The savage world of Thorstein Veblen.--The sick world of John Maynard Keynes.--The modern world.--Beyond the economic revolution.--A guide to further reading (p. 320-326).


Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the Worldly Philosophy

Behind the Veil of Economics: Essays in the Worldly Philosophy

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1989-06-17

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0393242633

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"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book Review What lies behind the veil of economics? Power and ideology, answers Robert Heilbroner—the power of our economic involvement in society to shape the ways we think about it; the visions and values that add unsuspected ideological color to our economic beliefs about it. Most important, Heilbroner shows why economics has become the reigning form of social inquiry and how we might penetrate its mystique.


Economics Explained

Economics Explained

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Two of America's most respected economists clarify the basics of economics for everyone who wants to understand the nature of the economic forces that seem to rule our lives. "Clarity triumphant, whether the topic is inflation or government, markets or Marx".--Newsday.


The Nature and Logic of Capitalism

The Nature and Logic of Capitalism

Author: Robert L. Heilbroner

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 039395529X

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A social analysis of capitalism. Nature and logic of social systems and capitalism.