David P. Levine

Broschiertes Buch

Wealth and Freedom

An Introduction to Political Economy

Beschreibung

Wealth and Freedom provides a comprehensive introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as: the place of our economy in the larger social system, the importance of market institutions for individual autonomy, private enterprise as a system of economic development, poverty and inequality in market economies, global inequality, the limits of the market and the role of government. The book is distinctive in employing a rights-based approach to understanding and evaluating economic institutions.

Autor

Emeritus professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He holds a PhD in economics from Yale University and a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Scholarship from the Colorado Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has published extensively in the fields of economics, political economy, and psychoanalysis. In the field of psychoanalysis, he has published books on work, creativity, ethics, and politics. His most recent publication is Dark Fantasy: Regressive Movements and the Search for Meaning in Politics. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447911
• ISBN-10: 0521447917
• Artikelnr.: 22012647