Preface
Glossary
PART I Current Economic Processes and Problems
1:What is Political Economy?
2:The Personal is Political Economic
3:Structural Economic Changes
4:Political Economic Challenges
PART II Economic Systems and Economic Theories
5:Economic Systems
6:Capitalism
7:Economic Theories
PART III Back to Basics: Classical Political Economy
8:Capitalism Emerging
9:Private Vices, Public Virtues
10:Value, Distribution, Growth
11:Land and Economic Surplus
PART IV The Critique of Capitalism: Marxist Economics
12:Contesting Capitalism
13:The Mode of Production
14:Labour, Value, Exploitation
15:Capital Accumulation
16:Reproduction, Growth, Change
17:Economic Crises
PART V The Ideology of the Market: Neoclassical Economics
18:Free-market Economics
19:Consumers
20:Firms
21:Market Structures
22:Distribution
23:Economic Welfare and Neo-Liberalism
PART VI Evolution and Reform: Institutional Economics
24:Economy and Society
25:A Dissident Tradition in Economics
26:Economic Power
27:Economic and Social Reform
28:Corporate Globalisation
PART VII Stabilising the Economy: Keynesian Economics
29:The Disillusioned Defence of Capitalism
30:Constructing a Keynesian Model
31:Instability in a Monetary Economy
32:Macroeconomic Policy
33:The Keynesian Legacy
PART VIII Contemporary Concerns: Modern Political Economy
34:A Radical Reconstruction
35:Economy and Environment
36:Technology, Industry, Work
37:Class, Gender, Ethnicity
308c The Political Economy of the State:
PART IX Whither Political Economy? Conflict and Progress
39:Why Do Economists Disagree?
40:A Level Playing Field for Economic Ideas?
41:W(h)ither Capitalism?
42:A Happy Ending?
Endnotes
Index