Subjectivity in Political Economy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

This book explores the way political economy understands human motivation. In it, the author argues that the assumptions typically made by economists regarding want and choice cannot adequately lay a foundation for answering important questions about the design of economic institutions and the appropriate use of markets. This volume offers an exciting and unusual contribution to political economy, offering a novel integration of the insights of political economy, philosophy, and psychology, applying them to vital foundational issues in political economy.

Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and Choosing (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Business & Money

Levine, David P.

Economics

Routledge

Normative Political Economy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Normative Political Economy explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. It argues that prevailing criteria lack sufficient depth in their understanding of subjective experience. David Levine's arguments cover topics which include:  * basic needs, equality and justice  * freedom, self-integration and creative living  * the role of the state  * capitalism and the good society

Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market and the State (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Object Relations, Work and the Self

In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work: guilt, greed and the self. Special attention is paid to the factors that determine the individual’s emotional capacity to do work that engages the self and its creative potential and to the related matter of impairment in that capacity. Chapters include:   the problem of work greed, envy and the search for the self skill, power and authority work and reality.  Object Relations, Work and the Self will be of interest to psychoanalysts and organizational consultants as well as anyone concerned with what determines the quality of life in the workplace.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals): Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory

First published in 1977, David Levine's Econom ic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the confusion and misdirection which baffles progress in all areas of economic theory, and lay the foundation for further development of economic science.  Levine discusses both the origins of economic science and the character of contemporary economic thought. He presents a critique of the ideas of classical political economy and of the notion of a 'labor theory of value' which excludes the possibility of a science of economic relations.

Welfare, Right and the State (Routledge Advances in International Political Economy)

This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy. Written by a well-known expert of political economy and welfare, it explores the nature of welfare and connects welfare not to basic needs, but to what Levine refers to as the capacity to lead the self-made life, considering different ways of grounding the claim that providing for the welfare of citizens might be considered a duty of the state.  Among the ideas explored are:    shared membership in a community rights compassion and security.  Welfare, Right and the State will be of interest to academics and advanced students working in the field of social administration, sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, international studies and social work.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Theories of Political Economy

Caporaso, James A.

Cambridge University Press

The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are those who cannot live a life that is discovered and created rather than already known. Avoiding poverty, then, means having the capacity and opportunity for creative living. The authors argue that the capacity to do skilled work plays a particularly important role in creative living, and suggest that the development of the ability to do skilled work is a vital part of solving the problem of poverty.

Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order

Rizvi, S. Abu Turab

<p>"Political economy" has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks for understanding the relation between politics and economics, including the classical, Marxian, Keynesian, neoclassical, state-centered, power-centered, and justice-centered. The book emphasizes understanding both the differences among the overall frameworks of the theories and the issues common to them.</p>

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Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and Choosing (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market and the State (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Object Relations, Work and the Self

Object Relations, Work and the Self

Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals): Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory

Normative Political Economy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Welfare, Right and the State (Routledge Advances in International Political Economy)

Theories of Political Economy

Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order

Theories of Political Economy