Radical political economics: principles, perspectives, and post-capitalist futures

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Summary: This collection of essays engages in the analysis of key concepts, concerns, and cutting-edge insights in radical political economy. Offering a robust critique of capitalist institutions as well as of mainstream economics, radical political economics reveals the structures and dynamics of global capitalism. The attention to method, ideology, and institutions differentiates it from mainstream approaches to economics, which often obfuscate how capitalism actually works. While maintaining a central focus on capitalism, the analyses in this book encompass a variety of issues from racial discrimination, gender inequality, to economic development and imperialism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the exploitation of workers to generate surplus value (profit) which is then appropriated by the owners of capital. Under global capitalism, profit maximization precedes other social concerns such as protection of the environment. Political economy understands that social relations are shaped by class, race, geography, and gender. Capitalism skews social relations of production and reproduction. It perpetuates inequalities along classed, gendered, racialized, and geographic lines. Radical political economy offers ideas and policies to change capitalism, in ways that are more beneficial for people and the planet. Incorporating insights from a range of disciplines including history, philosophy, political science, anthropology, sociology, and law, the wide range of topics, diverse set of scholars, and consideration of future political-economy formations offers readers a deeper understanding of the contours of contemporary global capitalism and post-capitalist possibilities in the twenty-first century. (https://www.routledge.com/Radical-Political-Economics-Principles-Perspectives-and-Post-Capitalist-Futures/Ali-Davis/p/book/9781032433011)

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Table of contents:
Part I: Principles of Radical Political Economics

1. Class Conflict

Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre

2.Ideology and Radical Political Economy

Ann E. Davis

3. Using the Theory of Innovative Enterprise to Analyze US Corporate Capitalism

Willliam Lazonick

4. Forms of Capitalism

David Kotz

5. Financialization

Ramaa Vasudevan

6. Feminist Radical Political Economy

Smita Ramnarain

7. The Economies of Imperialism

Prabhat Patnaik

Part II: Issues and Debates in Radical Political Economics

8. Crises and Cycles in Capitalism

Michael Roberts

9. A Marxist-Feminist Perspective on Motherhood

Elaine Tontoh

10. Social Protection in Political Struggle

Barry Herman

11. Migration: Differentiated Mobility Under Capitalism

Smriti Rao

12. Development Assistance as Internationalization

Farwa Sial

13. Contemporary Trajectories of State Capitalism

Ilias Alami

14. Some Basic Elements of a Global Green New Deal

Robert Pollin

15. Socio-Historical Ontology, Explanations, and Empirical Approaches

Paulo L. dos Santos

Part III: Capitalist Futures

16. Democratic Planned Socialism: Moving Beyond Capitalism to Support and Promotes Human Development

Al Campbell

17. Worker Cooperatives and Post-Capitalism

Erik Olsen

18. Middle Way: Social Democracy as an Alternative to Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Geoffrey Schneider

19. Economic Development in the 21st Century

Jayati Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar

20. Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies

Jason Moore & John Peter Antonacci

Index

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This collection of essays engages in the analysis of key concepts, concerns, and cutting-edge insights in radical political economy.

Offering a robust critique of capitalist institutions as well as of mainstream economics, radical political economics reveals the structures and dynamics of global capitalism. The attention to method, ideology, and institutions differentiates it from mainstream approaches to economics, which often obfuscate how capitalism actually works. While maintaining a central focus on capitalism, the analyses in this book encompass a variety of issues from racial discrimination, gender inequality, to economic development and imperialism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the exploitation of workers to generate surplus value (profit) which is then appropriated by the owners of capital. Under global capitalism, profit maximization precedes other social concerns such as protection of the environment. Political economy understands that social relations are shaped by class, race, geography, and gender. Capitalism skews social relations of production and reproduction. It perpetuates inequalities along classed, gendered, racialized, and geographic lines.

Radical political economy offers ideas and policies to change capitalism, in ways that are more beneficial for people and the planet. Incorporating insights from a range of disciplines including history, philosophy, political science, anthropology, sociology, and law, the wide range of topics, diverse set of scholars, and consideration of future political-economy formations offers readers a deeper understanding of the contours of contemporary global capitalism and post-capitalist possibilities in the twenty-first century.

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