Exploring Getting Started with Groove or Understanding Capitalism

Exploring Getting Started with Groove

Author: Robert Grauer

The goal of the Exploring series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill.
Managing the workspace, managing Groove tools, using the chat tool, message tool, discussion tool, calendar, and displaying pictures.
For professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge of Groove.

Book review: Early French Cookery or Inlet Isles

Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen

Author: Douglas Down

* An introduction to the key thinkers on the market economy

"Understanding Capitalism" combines the essays of seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, in a critical assessment of the relationship between economic thought and the dominance of capitalism. With subjects ranging from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen, the book traces the growth of the capitalist system over the past two hundred years and how economic theory has, in fact, become capitalist ideology. Relating socio-economic and analytical histories to present-day economic policy, this is a thoroughly accessible work which makes an ideal introduction to the key thinkers in economic thought past and present.

Major economists and economic schools of thought are discussed in a chapter-by-chapter guide that covers Marx, Veblen, Gramsci, post-Keynesian theory, Sweezy and the Monopoly Capital school, and recent Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, among others. Contributors include Michael Lebowitz, Carl Boggs, Michael Keaney, Frederic Lee, John Bellamy Foster and Robin Hahnel.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
1	Karl Marx: The Needs of Capital vs. the Needs of Human Beings	17
2	Thorstein Veblen: The Evolution of Capitalism from Economic and Political to Social Dominance; Economics as its Faithful Servant	37
3	What Gramsci Means Today	57
4	Critical Institutionalism: From American Exceptionalism to International Relevance	82
5	Post Keynesian Economics ( 1930-2000): An Emerging Heterodox Economic Theory of Capitalism	108
6	Paul Sweezy and Monopoly Capital	132
7	Amartya Sen: The Late Twentieth Century's Greatest Political Economist?	151
	Notes On Contributors	179
	Index	182