The Ideal Worlds of Economics: Liberal, Radical, and Conservative Economic World Views

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
What Is Liberalism?....Pages 7-11
Affluent Capitalism: Some Basic Facts....Pages 12-21
Markets and Affluent Capitalism....Pages 22-35
Political Business....Pages 36-47
Management and Planning....Pages 48-57
Developing Along the Main Line....Pages 58-66
Socialism: Development and Utopia....Pages 67-73
International Relations....Pages 74-85
The Future....Pages 86-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Liberal Economic World Views in Perspective....Pages 95-101
Basic Liberal Values....Pages 102-107
The Galbraith Variant....Pages 108-125
Drucker’s Liberal Discontinuities....Pages 126-134
Power and the Survival of Liberal Government....Pages 135-141
Wars and the Failure of Issue Structure....Pages 142-148
Dissent on Development....Pages 149-153
Ecological Cassandras....Pages 154-160
Front Matter....Pages 173-174
Introduction....Pages 175-179
Contemporary Capitalism:The Charges....Pages 180-186
Front Matter....Pages 173-174
The Structure and Tendency of Societies....Pages 187-195
Monopoly Capitalism: Structure and Tendencies....Pages 196-204
Exploitation Under Monopoly Capitalism....Pages 205-213
Government and Monopoly Capital....Pages 214-221
Instability and Crisis....Pages 222-228
Development and Imperialism....Pages 229-237
The Rise of Socialism: The Soviet Union....Pages 238-245
The Rise of Socialism: Yugoslavia and China....Pages 246-253
Transitions....Pages 254-261
The Future....Pages 262-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Radical World View and Radical Economics....Pages 269-273
Baran and Sweezy....Pages 274-283
Stagnation and Surplus Absorption....Pages 284-287
Alienation....Pages 288-292
Horvat....Pages 293-298
Technical Economics vs. Radical Economics?....Pages 299-303
The Role of Revolution....Pages 304-306
Front Matter....Pages 323-324
Introduction....Pages 325-329
What Made the Modern World?....Pages 330-336
Prosperity and Order in Ancient China and Republican Venice....Pages 337-342
Front Matter....Pages 323-324
England and the United States: The Thoroughgoing Market Economy....Pages 343-348
Markets and the Twentieth Century....Pages 349-354
Property Rights....Pages 355-360
Government and Property....Pages 361-368
Government and Spending....Pages 369-373
Money and Taxes....Pages 374-378
The Problem of Order....Pages 379-385
Economic Development....Pages 386-391
The International Economy....Pages 392-398
Socialism....Pages 399-404
International Order....Pages 405-410
The Future....Pages 411-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Introduction....Pages 419-423
Libertarians: The Pure Breed....Pages 424-429
Social Conservatives....Pages 430-434
Neoconservatives....Pages 435-439
Friedman....Pages 440-444
Hayek....Pages 445-449
Back Matter....Pages 461-482