Political Economy and the New Capitalism: Essays in Honour of Sam Aaronovitch

Abstract

Political Economy and the New Capitalism examines the relevance of Sam Aaronovitch's pioneering empirical studies of British capitalism in the light of modern developments. A wide range of problems are reviewed from industrial concentration today to the co-ordination of economic policies in Europe. Aaronovitch's work on the role of finance in the British economy is the subject sustained reflection. Individual chapters examine orthodox and left-wing criticisms of finance, exchange rate instability, and employment, growth and regions in the context of European Union. This work concludes with a bibliography of the published writings of Sam Aaronovitch and collects the reflections of some of the most distinguished thinkers in economics today including: Meghnad Desai, G.C. Harcourt, Pat Devine, Egon Matzner, Malcolm Sawyer, Sir Alan Budd, Jan Toporowski, Philip Arestis, Eleni Paliginis, Victoria Chick and Ben Fine.

Citation

Toporowski, J. (Ed.). (2000). Political Economy and the New Capitalism: Essays in Honour of Sam Aaronovitch. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203055557

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2000
• Deposit Date: Sep 13, 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Series ISSN: 1359-7914
• ISBN: 9781134633401
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203055557