Publisher's Synopsis
Perspectives on Capitalism explores the theoretical ideas of Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter and Weber, not so much to advance exegetical/polemical scholarly debates on abstruse questions, but to focus on the influence that their ideas have had on our contemporary perceptions and analyses of social realities. The contributors analyse the economic theories of capitalist economies that were developed Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter. They also explore the political and sociological dimensions of the ideas of Marx, Weber and Gramsci.