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Social Costs of Markets and Economic Theory

Frederic S Lee author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:31st Jan '14

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This book deals with the social costs of markets from a heterodox perspective. It deals with the degrading of work, decline of community, and rising income inequality in the United States as markets and especially financial markets come to dominate society. Of course, if there is an attempt to point out the social costs of markets, the response of mainstream economists is to silence the critics or even in Orwellian fashion redefine their critiques so as to eliminate any negative comments about markets. While critique is necessary, there also needs to be a constructive agenda, that is, the developing of an alternative, heterodox economic theory. So overall the book presents a critique of the social costs markets and the beginning of a heterodox economic theory of how the capitalist market system actually works.

ISBN: 9781118869383

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 16mm

Weight: 513g

323 pages