What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108487825)

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists and policymakers tend to ignore the political and social dimensions of capitalism, some of the great economists of the past - Adam Smith, Friedrich List, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Polanyi and Albert Hirschman - did not make the same mistake. Leveraging their insights, sociologists John L. Campbell and John A. Hall trace the historical development of capitalism as a social, political, and economic system throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They draw comparisons across eras and around the globe to show that there is no inevitable logic of capitalism. Rather, capitalism's performance depends on the strength of nation-states, the social cohesion of capitalist societies, and the stability of the international system - three things that are in short supply today.

Author: John L. Campbell, John A. Hall
ISBN-10: 1108487823
ISBN-13: 9781108487825
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2021
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.70h x 7.70w x 0.80d