Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen

by Douglas Dowd

Understanding Capitalism combines the essays of seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, in a critical assessment of the relationship between economic thought and the dominance of capitalism. With analyses of economists ranging from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen, the book traces the growth of the capitalist system over the past two hundred years and how economic theory has, in fact, become capitalist ideology. Relating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745317820
• ISBN13: 9780745317823
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.7"