Market Sense
Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society
By Philip Kozel
Published June 18th 2010 by Routledge – 188 pages
Series: New Political Economy
Description
This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social problems of their time.
Contents
1. Markets and Market Sense 2. Aristotle's Discourse on Commodity Exchange 3. Adam Smith's Market Sense 4. A Critique of the Market Mystique 5. Simple Exchange, Merchant Capital and Augmented Circulation 6. Liberals and Contemporary Globalization 7. The Market Sense of Contemporary Globalization's Critics. Appendix.
Author Bio
Philip Kozel is a graduate of the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at Connecticut College where he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests currently include alternative means of distribution, including local currency movements and piracy.
Name: Market Sense: Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Philip Kozel. This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the...
Categories: Economic Theory & Philosophy, History of Economic Thought, Politics & International Relations, Economics