Bøger af David P. Levine

Provides a systematic clarification and further development of the theoretical contributions of classical political economy. This work, presented in two volumes, focuses on central issues in economic theory, such as: need, value and exchange; capital and its production; the concept of labour; growth; the firm; and price determination.

Reviewing the course of English population history from 1066 to the eighties, this book challenges orthodoxies about the evolution of English family forms, and offers a bold interpretation of the inter-connections between social, economic, demographic and family history.

This work explores the way political economy understands human motivation. The text provides insights by integrating political economy, philosophy, and psychology, and argues many of its points by looking at the psychology of self-interest.

This book explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. Topics covered include: equality and justice, freedom and creative living, role of the state, capitalism and the good society.

This text provides an introduction to political economy. It explores: 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; and poverty and inequality in market economies.

'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, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks for understanding the relationship between politics and economics, including the classical, Marxian, Keynesian, neoclassical, state-centred, power-centred, and justice-centred approaches. The book emphasises both the differences between these frameworks and the issues common to them.

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.

This book explores the emotional meaning of regressive movements in contemporary politics with special reference to Trump and his supporters. Its main hypothesis is that the primary goal of these movements is not to restore a lost world of safety and wellbeing as they claim it is.